Lebes gamikos (funerary vase)
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 250–225 BCE
MediumCeramic with pigment and gilding
DimensionsFull height: 37 in. (94 cm)
LARGE BASE SPOOL (a): H 7 ½ in. (19.1 cm); Diam. top: 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm), foot: 8 ¼ in. (21.6 cm)
MAIN BODY (b): H 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm); max diam.: 12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm)
SMALL SPOOL (c): H 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); max diam. 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm)
FLAT CIRCULAR PLATE (d): H 1 ½ in. (3.8 cm); max. diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm)
TOP URN (e): H 7 ½ x W 3 ¾ x D 3 ¾ in.
LARGE BASE SPOOL (a): H 7 ½ in. (19.1 cm); Diam. top: 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm), foot: 8 ¼ in. (21.6 cm)
MAIN BODY (b): H 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm); max diam.: 12 ¾ in. (32.4 cm)
SMALL SPOOL (c): H 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); max diam. 3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm)
FLAT CIRCULAR PLATE (d): H 1 ½ in. (3.8 cm); max. diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm)
TOP URN (e): H 7 ½ x W 3 ¾ x D 3 ¾ in.
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number75.1.9/a-e
On View
On viewEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (color) 3.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 24.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Funerary Vase (Lebes Gamikos), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 30, illus. (color).
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Funerary Vase (Lebes Gamikos), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 60, illus. (color) 61.
Philipp Baas, “Zu den Vasenbildern aus Centuripe,” in Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, Vol. 85 (Vienna: Verlag Holzhausen, 2016), mentioned 93, illus. (color) 95, fig. 12.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” September 25-October 23, 1977.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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the Monte Abatone Painter
circa late 7th or early 6th century BCE
