Detail of a Terracotta Lekythos Attributed to the Nikon Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Attributed to the Nikon Painter

Period:Classical

Date:ca. 460–450 B.C.

Culture:Greek, Attic

Medium:Terracotta; red-figure

Dimensions:H. 15 in. (38.1 cm)

Classification:Vases

Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Pomerance, 1953

Accession Number:53.224

Obverse, Apollo with kithara (lyre) and palm tree

Leto was said to have given birth to Apollo beneath a date palm on the Cycladic island of Delos, the site of one of his most important sanctuaries.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254795