Red-Figure Lekythos in Six's Technique
Daten.d.
MediumEarthenware with slip-painted and cold-painted (?) decoration
DimensionsHeight: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Credit LineThe F.B. Tarbell Collection, Gift of E.P. Warren, 1902
Object number1967.115.352
Terms
- Red-figure
- Greek
Object TypeCeramics
On View
Not on viewThis lekythos—a funerary vessel used for anointing the corpse—is painted in the ephemeral and relatively uncommon Six’s technique of the Late Archaic and Early Classical periods. This style is characterized by the over-application on the surface of the piece of a white or red colored slip through which details are then incised down to the black glaze.
This piece features Pan, the god of shepherds and flocks, playing the double pipe and followed by a goat; he is depicted here as goat-legged Pan (Aigipan). Eros, followed by a rooster, runs toward Pan. The cult of Pan was instituted in Athens in 490 B.C.E. after he was credited with aiding the Athenians in the battle of Marathon. In the aftermath of the Persian wars, images of the god in sculpture and painting began to multiply. This may be the only Classical image which shows him alone with Eros; usually both are shown in the company of Aphrodite.
This piece features Pan, the god of shepherds and flocks, playing the double pipe and followed by a goat; he is depicted here as goat-legged Pan (Aigipan). Eros, followed by a rooster, runs toward Pan. The cult of Pan was instituted in Athens in 490 B.C.E. after he was credited with aiding the Athenians in the battle of Marathon. In the aftermath of the Persian wars, images of the god in sculpture and painting began to multiply. This may be the only Classical image which shows him alone with Eros; usually both are shown in the company of Aphrodite.
circa last quarter of 5th century B.C.E.
circa 5th - 1st century B.C.E.
circa 510 - 500 B.C.E.
circa 510 - 500 B.C.E.
circa late 6th - early 5th century B.C.E.
circa 350 B.C.E.
Last half of 5th century B.C.E.
circa 480 - 470 B.C.E.