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- A lekythos (Ancient Gr****: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Gr**** vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and...
- group of five Huge Lekythoi (c. 70–100 cm high) are covered entirely in white slip, which suggests an imitation of marble lekythoi for funerary purposes...
- painted scenes of death on white-ground cylindrical lekythoi. All of the Thanatos Painter's found lekythoi have scenes of or related to death (thanatos in...
- stirrup jars with a pierced shoulder, belly amphorae and neck amphorae, lekythoi as well as jars, some with trefoil-shaped mouths. By the end of the Submycenaean...
- belly and the neck, hydriai (water jars), oinochoai (lit. 'wine jugs'), lekythoi, and skyphoi (stemless cups). In the early Geometric period (900–850 BC)...
- vases to his hand, the largest share being red-figure and white-ground lekythoi. In his middle phase (ca. 450–445 BC), he decorates more open forms. The...
- accessed 27 November 2016. Arthur Fairbanks (1864–1944) (1907). Athenian lekythoi with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground. New York: Macmillan...
- the river. This was a particularly common motif on Athenian white ground lekythoi (funerary vases) of fifth century BCE and it is difficult to date this...
- unguentaria (small bottles for oil) in place of the earlier lekythoi. Black-figure lekythoi had often depicted Dionysiac scenes; the later white-ground...
- survive, and is why some will depict funeral processions. White ground lekythoi contained the oil used as funerary offerings and appear to have been made...