M0014794: Lekythos showing a woman washing her hair, 4th century B.C.

Previous title, replaced October 2021: Lekythos small jug showing woman washing her hair, 4th century B.C.

Photograph of a 4th century B.C. lekythos, an Ancient Greek vessel, decorated with an image of a woman washing her hair at a pedestal washing basin. South Italian workmanship. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

June 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10 x 12 cm

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.