Terracotta fragment of a lekanis lid (covered dish)

Unknown

second quarter of the 6th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

At the top, band of black glaze; below, a band of rays framed at the top by a line of red glaze, and at the bottom by two black glazed lines; below, at the left, an unidentified object; at the right, head and part of the wing of a filleted sphinx to right, looking over the left shoulder

Artist

Unknown

Date

second quarter of the 6th century BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011