Virtual Thirty on Thursday: Music, Memory, and an Athenian White-Ground Lekythos

The Tampa Museum of Art’s popular midday program continues online. Join Sheramy Bundrick, Professor of Art History for a brief discussion of an object from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Through their distinctive imagery and function as funerary vessels, Athenian white-ground lekythoi (oil pitchers) of the fifth century BCE grant important insight into treatment of the dead. Women are frequently shown on lekythoi because they held the responsibility of caring for the deceased; musical references, too, can often be found, reflecting the role of music in Athenian society. In this talk, Dr. Bundrick explores a white-ground lekythos in the Joseph Veach Noble Collection of the TMA—currently on view in the exhibition HerStory: Stories of Ancient Heroines and Everyday Women—and discusses the intersection of music, memory, and mortuary belief.

Speaker: Sheramy Bundrick is Professor of Art History at the University of South Florida (St Petersburg campus), where she has taught since 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in art history at Emory University (1998) and has held fellowships and grants from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Academy in Rome, and Archaeological Institute of America. She is the author of Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019); and numerous scholarly articles on Greek pottery and other topics.

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Image: White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel), Ca. 460 BC, Ceramic, Tampa Museum of Art, Joseph Veach Noble Collection, purchased in part with funds donated in memory of Dorothy M. Mosely, 1986.079