This fragment from a red-figure lekythos (oil bottle) in the Princeton University Art Museum is attributed to the Berlin Painter and dates to about 490–480 B.C. It represents a woman standing before an altar, on which rests a tall metal incense burner. The woman wears a long linen gown, or chiton, over which is draped a heavier woolen cloak, a himation. Her hair is wrapped in a cloth headdress, a kekryphalos. Her missing right hand holds an oinochoe (wine jug), and in her raised left hand she holds what appears to be a small branch, perhaps for fanning the coals in the incense burner. Over-painting has obscured most traces of the preliminary sketch, but otherwise it is possible to compare elements of the drawing with that on the cup with an Amazon.

Greek, Attic
attributed to the Berlin Painter
Red-figure Lekythos Fragment: Woman at an Altar, ca. 490–480 B.C.
Ceramic
pres. h. 19.6 × pres. w. 9.2 × th. 0.4 cm (7 11/16 × 3 5/8 × 3/16 in.)
Gift of Jasper Gaunt in memory of Jill Gannon
2000-149