Definition of Lekythoi. Meaning of Lekythoi. Synonyms of Lekythoi

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- vessels. Attic pottery is represented through black-figure cylixes and lekythoi and two black-glazed kantharoi. Particularly interesting is the red-figured...
- 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...
- both the belly and the neck, hydriai (water jars), oinochoai (wine jugs), lekythoi, and skyphoi (stemless cups). Protegeometric pottery style is thought to...
- 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...
- accessed 27 November 2016. Arthur Fairbanks (1864–1944) (1907). Athenian lekythoi with outline drawing in glaze varnish on a white ground. New York: Macmillan...
- unguentaria (small bottles for oil) in place of the earlier lekythoi. Black-figure lekythoi had often depicted Dionysiac scenes; the later white-ground...