Lekythos (Jar)
Greek
4th-5th century BCE
Glazed terracotta
Overall: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Harold R. Bruce, Class of 1923HW
168.65.24401
Geography
Place Made: Athens, Greece, Europe
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Classical World
Not on view
Course History
CLST 22, City-States and Panhellenic Sanctuaries, Margaretha Kramer, Winter 2019
Provenance
Collected by Oliver W. Cook, Worcester, Massachusetts, about 1910; given to his daughter,Katherine C. [Mrs. Harold R.] Bruce, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1968.
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