Shape
Lekythos
λήκυθος
10092 vases
A narrow-necked flask for oil, often used as a funerary offering placed in or on the grave. White-ground lekythoi bear some of the most beautiful and haunting images in Greek art — scenes of mourning, farewell, and the boundary between life and death.
Function & Use
Oil flask; funerary offering
10092 examples
Lekythos
BF
Attributed to the Leagros Group
Squat lekythos
GEO
Mycenaean Lekythos
about 1200 B.C.
Lekythos
Terracotta pointed aryballos (oil flask)
GEO
late 7th–early 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
490–470 BCE
Terracotta fragments of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta conical lekythos-oinochoe (combination oil flask and jug)
late 8th–early 7th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE
Terracotta conical lekythos (vase for oil)
GEO
ca. 700 BCE
Lekythos
ORI
7th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
6th/5th centuries BCE
Lekythos (Protokorinthischer Spitzaryballos)
BF
Ajax-Maler
· 675-650 v. Chr.
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
mid 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragments of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
third quarter of the sixth century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)?
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
540–530 BCE
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