Smith, Cecil Harcourt; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 3): Vases of the finest period (London, 1896)

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CATALOGUE OF VASES.

D 91. LEKYTHOS. Ht. 9! in. Surface worn. Red outline ; red wash with lines etched out

for drapery and hair. The pattern of the palmctte is left in white against a red background.
Above, brown lines ; on shoulder, a pattern of three palmettos in red.

Offerings at a tomb. In the centre is the stele, crowned with a tall
palmettc. Against it, on the 1., is rested a shield on its edge, beside which
stands a youth in a short chiton, with an himation rolled up on his 1. arm,
and holding upright in his 1. hand a spear. On the r. is a woman in a long
chiton with diplois, who holds in her 1. hand a basket with two taeniae hanging
from it; her hair is looped up ; her chiton is left merely in outline ; she extends
her r. hand towards the stele. ;.