Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Unknown Artist
Nike
Nike, the personification of victory, lends herself particularly well to the tall, rather narrow shape of a lekythos. The subject was common during the first decades of the fifth century B.C., undoubtedly in response to the Greek victory over the Persians.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1925
Ca. 480–470 B.C.
Terracotta; red-figure
9.4 x 9.4cm
25.78.1
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018
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