• Thumbnail for Lekythos
    (Attic shoulder lekythos by the workshop of the Diosphos Painter, c. 500 BC) Shoulder lekythos Shoulder lekythos, c. 510 Deianeria lekythos Prothesis (lying...
    7 KB (763 words) - 19:11, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike (mythology)
    Archaeological Museum, Milan. Nike with bowl and kithara, red-figured lekythos, 460 BC, Blanton Museum of Art. Nike crowning an athlete on an amphora...
    33 KB (4,351 words) - 09:55, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greek underworld
    Psychopompos sits on a rock, preparing to lead a dead soul to the underworld. Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. 450 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2797)...
    44 KB (5,636 words) - 02:44, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thanatos Painter
    white-ground lekythos by the Thanatos Painter is of Hynos and Thanatos carrying Sarpedon (435–425 BCE); it is located in the British Museum. On the lekythos Hypnos...
    6 KB (775 words) - 15:34, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pegasus
    representations of Pegasus and Chimaira Pegasus, Attic red-figure squat lekythos, 480–460 BC, from Sicily Parthian era bronze plate depicting Pegasus (Pegaz...
    17 KB (1,806 words) - 23:01, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for White-ground technique
    Painter. Type V. The fifth style was polychrome lekythos painting. It replaced Early Classical lekythos painting around the middle of the 5th century BC...
    13 KB (1,696 words) - 11:11, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices
    oration (ancient Greece) Kerameikos, site of an extensive cemetery at Athens Lekythos, a type of vessel holding oils or liquids often used in connection with...
    13 KB (1,670 words) - 20:08, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Typology of Greek vase shapes
    Acorn lekythos Deianeira lekythos, c. 550 BC. Shoulder or secondary lekythos, c. 500 BC. Standard or cylinder lekythos c.490 BCE. Squat lekythos Loutrophoros...
    11 KB (957 words) - 22:04, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Circe
    However, he is sometimes depicted carrying spears as well, as in the Athens lekythos, while Homer reports that it was a bow he had slung over his shoulder....
    95 KB (11,862 words) - 20:43, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ajax the Great
    1795 Achilles and Ajax play a game of dice on this early 5th-century BC lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites A red-figure...
    19 KB (2,315 words) - 21:16, 3 September 2024