Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
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2nd half of the 6th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Theseus slaying the Minotaur The lekythos is decorated in Six's technique, in which the background is in black glaze and the figures appear with incised contours through the black glaze or with applied white, red, or brown paint.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 2nd half of the 6th century BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Robert E. Hecht Jr. Gift, 1963
