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
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/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)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries 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)
mid 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?
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 lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century 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)
early 5th 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)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century 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)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries 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)
second quarter of the 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)
late 6th 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)
late 6th 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)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
6th/5th centuries 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)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
mid-6th 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)
late 6th 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)
last quarter of the 6th century BCE
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
late 6th/early 5th century BCE
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