Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Lekythos

Detailed information

Name of the object

Lekythos

Inventory №

338

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Clay

Dimensions and weight

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Antiquity

Item description

Pear-shaped lekythos, made of high-quality clay, yellow brick colour. Upper and middle part of the body decorated with circles painted with black and red paint. Found during excavations of vaulted tomb near the village of Yankovo in 1949 by Tsv. Dremsizova.
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