Fragment of a Funerary Lekythos (Monument in the Shape of an Oil Jar) by Ancient Greek
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Fragment of a Funerary Lekythos (Monument in the Shape of an Oil Jar)

Ancient Greek · 4th century BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1931 to 2009; sold, through Robert Haber as agent, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, 2009-February 2012.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012-present.

Literature

Published references

  • Bernhard Schmaltz, Untersuchungen zu den attischen Marmorlekythen (Berlin: Mann, 1970), pp. 30ff, Nr A 132, pl. 32.
  • Avgi Maria Proukakis, The Evolution of the Attic Marble Lekythoi, and Their Relation to the Problem of Identifying the Dead among the Figures Shown on the Funerary Reliefs, doctoral thesis, University of London, England, 1971, no. 116 [microform, 1971].
  • Christoph Clairmont, Classical Attic Tombstones, vol. 3 (1993), p. 146, no. 3.322; IGII.2, 5495a.
  • Corpus Inscriptonium Graecum II (2), 5495a.
  • Andreas Scholl, “Die antiken Skulpturen in Farnborough Hall sowie in Althorp House, Blenheim Palace, Lyme Park und Penrice Castle,” mit Beitragen von Rainer Braun Dagmar Grassinger, Irmgard Hiller, Claudia Klages und Anja Klocker, in Monumenta Artis Romanae XXIII, (Mainz: von Zabern, 1995), p. 86, note 22.
  • Andreas Scholl, Die attischen Bildfeldstelen des 4. Jhs. V. Chr., Untersuchungen zu den Kleinformatigen Grabreliefs in spätklassichen Athen (Berlin: Mann, 1996), p. 64, 398 ff, p. 377.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2008-09 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), p. 19.
  • O.J. Sopranos, "Leon Halaieus: What His Tombstone Reveals about His Family," unpublished manuscript, 2012, unpublished manuscript in curatorial object file, Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art, Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 33.
  • Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 54-55 (cat. 7), 110, 111.

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