- 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...
- vase painter,
active about 490 to 460 BC. His
speciality was white-ground
lekythoi painted in the black-figure style. His pseudonym, for his real name is...
- 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...
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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...
- emplo****,
including the
Nolan amphora (see
Typology of Gr**** Vase Shapes),
lekythoi, as well as
bowls of the
askos and
dinos types. The
specialisation into...
-
unguentaria (small
bottles for oil) in
place of the
earlier lekythoi. Black-figure
lekythoi had
often depicted Dionysiac scenes; the
later white-ground...
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accessed 27
November 2016.
Arthur Fairbanks (1864–1944) (1907).
Athenian lekythoi with
outline drawing in
glaze varnish on a
white ground. New York: Macmillan...
- 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...
