- 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...
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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...
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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...
- painter,
active about 490 to 460 BC. His
speciality were white-ground
lekythoi painted in the black-figure style. His pseudonym, for his real name is...
- 1936 book
Attic Black Figured-
Lekythoi,
based on her work at the
University of Utrecht, has
remained the
standard on
lekythoi since its publication. Haspels...
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including stirrup jars with a
pierced shoulder,
belly amphorae, neck amphorae,
lekythoi, and jars, some with trefoil-shaped mouths. By the end of the Submycenaean...
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shades of the dead in Gr****
mythology and some
fifth century BC
funerary lekythoi.
Although commonly translated as "soul" today, in the
epics of Homer, it...
- have been
active from 500–475 BCE, many of
whose surviving works are on
lekythoi. The
Diosphos Painter was a
pupil of the
Edinburgh Painter, who also trained...
- 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...
- 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...
