Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos

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The museum’s record says it “possibly contained perfumed oil”.

The record keeps to the museum’s own metadata on Zenodo: its title, date, accession number and description, each quoted from the filed record. It is a historical object, not a HombreOils product. 3D model: The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, CC BY 4.0.

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Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos (The Hunt Museum, HCM 233)

The Hunt Museum, HCM 233, 3D-scanned by the museum. Not a HombreOils product.

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The museum’s record says it “possibly contained perfumed oil”. Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos: 5th to 4th century BC, Classical Greek. The Hunt Museum, HCM 233. The 3D model is the museum’s own scan, simplified for the web and scaled to the height the museum’s description gives.

In the room

9.5 cm tall. Scaled to the height in the museum’s record (H 9.5 x W 7.6cm)

Source

The Hunt Museum, HCM 233; 3D model by The Hunt Museum (deposited on Zenodo)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 · credit: “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos” (HCM 233), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18947964, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Modified (simplified, converted and rescaled: the mesh reduced, its colour and surface baked to textures, scaled to the height the museum’s record states) by HombreOils.

Model

21,997 triangles (simplified from 217,360)

The files GLB 945 KB · USDZ 1.9 MB

The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Title

Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos

documented

Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s title

confidence A

Date

5th to 4th century BC, Classical Greek

documented

5th to 4th century BC, Classical Greek

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum record’s date; the museum’s own wording

confidence A

Maker

not on record

not on record

the museum names no maker

Designer

not on record

not on record

the museum documents no designer

Place

Classical Greek

documented

5th to 4th century BC, Classical Greek

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the culture named in the museum’s date field

confidence A

Material

not on record

not on record

the museum’s metadata on Zenodo states no material

Dimensions

H 9.5 x W 7.6cm

documented

This small vase (H 9.5 x W 7.6cm) has its origins in a small group of vases of various forms known as ‘plastic vases’.

EUROPEANA-1 · Europeana, IIIF Presentation manifest of “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos, HCM 233” (record 181/share3d_201 · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s own measurement, in its description of the object as Europeana publishes it (data provider: The Hunt Museum)

confidence A

Collection

The Hunt Museum

documented

The Hunt Museum

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s data provider: the museum itself

confidence A

Accession

HCM 233

documented

HCM 233

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s accession number (dc:identifier)

confidence A

The museum’s description

“This fourth or fifth-century vase originates in a group known as ‘plastic vases’, including human figures, body parts, animals and birds. A hand clasps a lekythos, the mouth, neck and part of the body are visible. The whiteness and daintiness of the worn hand indicate a woman. The thumb is over the first two fingers and there is a gap between the small and third fingers. The hand vase rests on an oval base. This personal object was for use by a woman or in a her grave. It possibly contained perfumed oil. Many like this come from eastern Greece, particularly Rhodes, but also Corinth, Athens and the south Italian Greek colonies.”

documented

This fourth or fifth-century vase originates in a group known as ‘plastic vases’, including human figures, body parts, animals and birds. A hand clasps a lekythos, the mouth, neck and part of the body are visible. The whiteness and daintiness of the worn hand indicate a woman. The thumb is over the first two fingers and there is a gap between the small and third fingers. The hand vase rests on an oval base. This personal object was for use by a woman or in a her grave. It possibly contained perfumed oil. Many like this come from eastern Greece, particularly Rhodes, but also Corinth, Athens and the south Italian Greek colonies.

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the museum’s own description, word for word (its hedges kept); the museum’s wording is kept as written: “in a her grave” [sic]

confidence A

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.18947964

documented

10.5281/zenodo.18947964

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the DOI of the museum’s Zenodo deposit (an outward id)

confidence A

3D model

3D model by The Hunt Museum

documented

https://zenodo.org/api/records/18947964/files/greek_hand-vase_clasping_a_lekythos.glb/content

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

"Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos" (HCM 233), 3D model by The Hunt Museum, via Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18947964, licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

confidence A

Deposit

the museum’s deposit on Zenodo

documented

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18947964

HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick) · read 2026-10-01

the deposit’s DOI link (the record of the object on Zenodo; the same link is the edm.xml’s ProvidedCHO)

confidence A

Connections

No filed source links this object to a fragrance, perfumer, historical event or material in the records; none is claimed.

Sources

1. HUNT-1 · The Hunt Museum (Limerick). 3D models with metadata, deposited on Zenodo, 2026-03-11: “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos” (HCM 233), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18947964; “Attic white-ground lekythos” (HCM 228), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18949666; “Gold pomander” (MG 087), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948074; “Cosmetic jar” (MG 008), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18948624. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18947964 · read 2026-10-01 · CC BY 4.0
2. EUROPEANA-1 · Europeana, IIIF Presentation manifest of “Greek, hand-vase clasping a lekythos, HCM 233” (record 181/share3d_201; creator and institution: The Hunt Museum; via the Share3D project), read 2026-10-01. iiif.europeana.eu/presentation/181/share3d_201/m… · read 2026-10-01 · Public Domain Mark 1.0

Our text and structure are CC BY 4.0; quoted source text stays under its owners’ terms.

this record as data: /data/bottle/hand-vase-clasping-a-lekythos-hunt.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A