Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat
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Attic Black Figure Lekythos with Athena in Combat

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Athens, late 6th to early 5th century B.C.
A slender cylindrical vessel with ovoid body tapering to a small foot, narrow neck, and flaring mouth, the shoulder decorated with a band of black tongues and dotted ornament.

The principal panel shows Athena advancing right, wearing a long peplos and high‑crested helmet, holding a round shield on her left arm and thrusting forward a spear toward a confronting warrior, who moves left in a dynamic, lunging pose, nude or lightly armed, with spear and shield; above them runs an arched, dotted line suggesting a hanging garland or framing device, with added red details now mostly fugitive. The scene is best understood as Athena engaging a generic heroized opponent in battle, part of the broader repertoire of martial and mythological combats on late Archaic lekythoi rather than a firmly individualized episode. 

Size 5-5/8 in. (14.3 cm)  Height

Condition: Visible repair to foot surface wear and with areas of misfiring, surface encrustation and minor losses.

Provenance Mr. Tony D., Cannonville, Utah, acquired 1970s.

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