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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4039891, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities since the early 1980s to the extent my budget permits -- I&#039;ve never spent more than $2,500 on any single artifact.&nbsp; I thought I&#039;d share photos of three of my favorites, all of them</p><p>small black-figure Attic lekythoi (vases used for oil) dating from the end of the 6th century BCE.&nbsp; Here are links to descriptions and photos of two of the three, which I bought last year:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=6874" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=6874" rel="nofollow">http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=6874</a> [Sorry, this link is apparently defunct.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=7412" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=7412" rel="nofollow">http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=7412</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(I received a substantial discount for buying the two together.)</p><p><br /></p><p>And here are some photos showing how I have these lekythoi displayed in a glass bell jar in my apartment, together with a third Attic lekythos with the same shape from the same period (showing warriors fighting, with two hounds on the shoulder as opposed to a hound and hare) that I purchased in 1986 from Royal Athena.&nbsp; That one and the newer one showing a horseman with two attendants in front and one behind, and a hound and hare on the shoulder, both belong to the so-called &quot;Little Lion&quot; class of lekythoi (because there were often small lions displayed on the shoulder).&nbsp; There are a number of similar examples in the Beazley database of Greek vases in the Little Lion Class and the Hound and Hare Group, including one at the British Museum with an almost identical design to the one I have, albeit excavated in an ancient cemetery in Rhodes in the 1860s rather than in Sicily in the 1940s.&nbsp; All of these types of lekythoi were made for export in the pottery district of Athens (the Kerameikos district), and most have been found in graves in ancient cemeteries, where they served a votive purpose.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060537[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060538[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060539[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060540[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060541[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060542[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060546[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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