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| Keywords: Reed Painter - Lekythos with Two Figures and Winged Sepulchur - Walters 482523 - Side A.jpg This white-ground shoulder lekythos depicts a youth and a woman at a tomb On the left a woman stands nearly frontally to the right her head and left leg in profile She wears a peplos and gestures as in grief with both hands In the center a rectangular stele with pedimental finial sits on top of a two-step base Traces of ribbons are visible on the lower step and lower part of the stele On the right a youth in a chitoniskos and chlamys bends over to the left leaning on two spears His right hand rests beneath his chin He has a pestasos hanging down his back and a belt around his waist ca 420 410 BC Classical terracotta cm 24 8 7 h x max diam ; at mouth cm 5 diam ; at foot cm 4 6 diam accession number 48 2523 14437 Dr Frederick G Stern Potomac Maryland date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of Dr Frederick G Stern 1985 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek pottery in the Walters Art Museum Reed Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update White-ground lekythoi | ||||
