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Cretan Red-Figured Lekythoi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

B.F. Cook
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Abstract

Three small examples of shoulder-lekythoi in museums in Western Crete are described and discussed. Though evidently derived from the Attic Series, it is suggested that they are the products of a local workshop.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 85 , November 1990 , pp. 69 - 70
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1990

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Acknowledgements

This brief notice arises from observations made during a visit to Rethymnon and Chania in February 1988 as a guest of the University of Crete. I am indebted to the Rector of the University for a hospitable welcome, to Professor N. Stampolidis for arranging the invitation and for obtaining photographs of the lekythos in Rethymnon, and to Dr Vanna Niniou-Kindelis, Director of the Chania Museum, for providing photographs and permission to republish Chania π 5, and especially for her kindness in granting facilities for study at a difficult time while the Museum was closed during rebuilding.

1 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris 1936) 7.Google Scholar It effectively replaced the earlier ‘Deianeira’ shape and was itself eventually superseded by the ‘squat’ lekythos. Since it dominated the market for most of the fifth century, it commonly (and hereafter in this article) lacks any qualification to the name ‘lekythos’.

2 Lullies, R., AM 65 (1940) 1–27, esp. 9–10Google Scholar; ARV2 1010.

3 AA 1941, 63ff.; Corinth XIII (Palmer, Hazel, The North Cemetery) 141ff.Google Scholar; BMQ 36 (1971–72), 115–6.

4 E.g. normal sized Lucanian by the Primato Painter, the Dolon Painter and others, Trendall, A.D., The Red-figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily (Oxford 1967) 104, 147, 166Google Scholar; Apulian by the Sisyphus Painter, the Lecce Painter and others, Trendall, A.D. and Cambitoglou, Alexander, The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (Oxford 1978) 18, 125, 259, 283Google Scholar; and giant Apulian by the Underworld Painter, Trendall, A.D., Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily (London 1989) 90, fig. 208.Google Scholar

5 So Gex-Morgenthaler, Kristine, ‘Der Berner Maler,’ AntK 29 (1986) 115–125, esp. 123–4.Google Scholar

6 On red-figure in Greece outside Attica in general, see McPhee, Ian, BSA 81 (1986) 153, n. 6.Google Scholar Dr McPhee, who is planning a survey of the local red-figure fabrics of Greece, has kindly informed me (letter, 14 May 1988) that he has observed in the museums of Ayios Nikolaos and Hierapetra red-figured vases that appear to be of local manufacture.

7 Haspels, ABL, especially 43, 80 and 162 (with n. 3), Plates 20 and 27.