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Oil flask (lekythos), Classical Period, about 440 B.C. By the Achilles Painter. Findspot: Suessula, Italy. Attic Ceramic, White Ground. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
At left, a woman seated to right in a chair, painted brown, holding an object in both hands. The paint used has faded away, but it most likely was a necklace or other piece of jewelry. She wears a sleeved dress (chiton) and a pink mantle (himation). From the right approaches a girl holding out both hands. She also must have been holding something, perhaps more jewelry. She wears a diaphanous sleeveless dress (peplos): its color has since faded away . Hanging in field to left, a mirror and an oinochoë. To the right, a hair-bag (sakkos) hangs. Between them an inscription reads: "Axiopeithes, son of Alkimachos, is handsome" (AXIOPEI[THE]S KALOS ALKIMAX[O]).
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Oil flask (lekythos), Classical Period, about 440 B.C. By the Achilles Painter. Findspot: Suessula, Italy. Attic Ceramic, White Ground. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
At left, a woman seated to right in a chair, painted brown, holding an object in both hands. The paint used has faded away, but it most likely was a necklace or other piece of jewelry. She wears a sleeved dress (chiton) and a pink mantle (himation). From the right approaches a girl holding out both hands. She also must have been holding something, perhaps more jewelry. She wears a diaphanous sleeveless dress (peplos): its color has since faded away . Hanging in field to left, a mirror and an oinochoë. To the right, a hair-bag (sakkos) hangs. Between them an inscription reads: "Axiopeithes, son of Alkimachos, is handsome" (AXIOPEI[THE]S KALOS ALKIMAX[O]).