Object: PNP 120
Inventory Number:   PNP 120
Title:   Red Figure Lekanis Lid Fragment
Description:   Mended from the pieces. At the right a partly draped seated (?) figure, right; then a woman in peplos with bordered overfold and opening, running right, carrying an alabastron and two embroidered taeniae, in her left hand, and in her right a small pyxis. She wears a saccos and looks back left toward another woman who also moves right but looks back left, her hand upraised, she wears a sphendone. At the left edge of the fragment part of the hair and sphendone of another figure.
Running figures to right, looking back; from right to left: torso of male figure; himation around lower part of body. Woman holding alabastron and sash in the right hand, pyxis in the other; she wears peplos with black boarder and saccos; earrings. From the following woman, only the head and raised left hand is preserved; hair in sphendone. A bit of hair in the sphendone is only preserved from a third woman at the left edge.
Wheelrun groove and egg pattern around knob, of which the stump remains. Dotted egg around down-turned rim.
No relief contour. Glazed below.
Context:   Trench B.
Notebook Page:   172, 186
Dimensions:   P.D. 0.24
Date:   30 December 1930
2 January 1931
Elevation:   0.80-1m; 1-2m
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 39, no. 155, pl. 13.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956)
Card: PNP 120
Card: PNP 120