Squat Lekythos: Eros and a Woman

Description:

Squat Lekythos (Oil Flask) Depicting Winged Eros Playing a Tympanon as a Woman Dances

Artist:

Artist Unknown

Medium:

Terracotta; red figure

Dimensions:

H. 17.5 cm; Diam. of body 10.2 cm; Diam. of foot 7.8 cm

Context:

Attica, Greece

Date:

Classical, 450–400 BCE

Inventory Number:

24.97.35

Lender:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Credit:

Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1924