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This vessel is decorated with a female figure advancing towards a wool basket, holding a flat basket with wreaths and a lekythos. White lekythoi, perfume vases, were made exclusively in Athens and destined solely for funerary use.
The scene on the Benaki vase is of an Athenian preparing to visit the tomb of some dear deceased or of a bride getting ready for a marriage that will never take place.
Attic workshop. Attributed to the workshop of the Aischines and Tymbos Painters. 475-450 BCE. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).
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