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AID AIC_.1907.20 OTY Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects CLG CLT Ancient art CLG CLT Vessel CLG CLT European Decorative arts OTG OTN Lekythos (Oil Bottle) OTT preferred MET H.: 30.8 cm (12-1/8 in.); Diam. at shoulder: 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in.) OMG OMD Earthenware, white-ground technique CRG CID ULAN: 18534 CRT Achilles Painter CRN Achilles Painter CRC Mediterranean CDT Greek; fl. c.450-420 B.C. Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient CAP Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient CRR Painter CRG CRT Greek CRN Unknown CRC Mediterranean CDT Ancient Greece, Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient CAP Early Western World, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient OCG OCT High Classical Period, 450/440 B.C. OCS -04500101 OCE -04401231 OCP Europe, Greece, Greater Athens, Athens SUG SUP Lekythoi were favored gifts for male burials, since they were popular as containers of the oil with which young athletes cleaned themselves. This lekythos is quite typical, showing a farewell scene on the main frieze. The older man (with stick and cloak) salutes the departed youth, a warrior, who holds his spear proudly. Some of the washes of color added to the garment have faded away. This vase has the distinction of having been painted by a leading exponent of red-figure painting, the Achilles Painter (named for his depiction of Achilles on an amphora in the Vatican Museum), who also tried his hand at the white-ground technique. CXG CXD Baked clay vessels decorated with mythological and genre scenes were used by Greeks as dinner party ware, prizes, gifts, and grave offerings. During the High Classical Period Athens was the leading center in vase production, as well as the intellectual and political leader of the Greek mainland and the Ionian coast. Philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and the politician Pericles worked at this time in the city that was restoring the ruined Acropolis with building such as the Parthenon. OOG OON The Art Institute of Chicago OOP Chicago, IL OOA 1907.20 OOC The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson ORG ORL http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html RIG RIP Y RID View depicting old man in cloak with stick RIR reproduction RIL AIC_.E27009.TIF DCG DCB Jane Neet DCD 19980420 AVD 20000614 AVV 1.2 ALY 1998 ADP WARNING: OCS: Removing '-' from '-04500101'! ADP WARNING: OCE: Removing '-' from '-04401231'!
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