Object Details
Culture
Greece, Athens
Date
ca. 450 BC
Medium
Fired terra-cotta with white ground and incised decoration
Dimensions
12 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches (32.4 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Transferred from University Collections
Object
Number
77.052
This kind of vessel was used to hold oil, usually made from olives, with which people would cleanse (…)
This kind of vessel was used to hold oil, usually made from olives, with which people would cleanse themselves. Lekythoi like this one were also buried with the dead. Large stone versions, like the one in the grave scene painted on the side of this example, were used as funerary monuments.
