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  2. Lekythos - Wikipedia

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    A lekythos (Ancient Greek: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug, with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is more like a modern jug. In the "shoulder" and "cylindrical" types ...

  3. Reed Painter - Wikipedia

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    The vessels of the Reed Painter are typical of white-ground lekythoi in that they often focus on real people, in contrast to the earlier black-figure tradition that featured scenes of mythical figures pertaining to Dionysiac cult. [1] The purpose of the lekythos is often reflected in its subject matter.

  4. Gnathia vases - Wikipedia

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    At the same time, the thematic range was reduced, limiting itself to tendrils of vine, ivy or laurel, theatrical masks, and, within the tendrils, male and female heads, doves and swans. The lower half of the vessels was now often ribbed. Apart from oinochoai, skyphos and pelikes, shapes also included bottles, lekythoi, bowls and kantharoi.

  5. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, stamnos, pyxis, mixing vessels, mainly for symposia or male drinking parties, including the krater, dinos, and kyathos, jugs and cups, several types of kylix also just called cups, kantharos, phiale, skyphos, rhyton, mastos, and jug-types oinochoe and loutrophoros,

  6. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    mixing vessels, mainly for symposia or male drinking parties, including the krater, and dinos, jugs and cups, several types of kylix also just called cups, kantharos, phiale, skyphos, oinochoe and loutrophoros, vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics, including the large lekythos, and the small aryballos and alabastron.

  7. Beldam Painter - Wikipedia

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    Athena on a lekythos, c. 480 BC, found at Vari, Athens: National Museum Inv. 1061. The Beldam Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active from around 470 to before 450 BC. [1] His real name is unknown. The conventional name is derived from his name vase, which depicts an unidentified older female being tortured by several satyrs. He ...

  8. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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    Attic white-ground lekythos (type I) depicting Heracles fighting Geryon, Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum, Palermo Spinning woman, Attic oinochoe (type III), probably from Locri, by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 BC. White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white ...

  9. Loutrophoros - Wikipedia

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    Protoattic loutrophoros-amphora by the Analatos Painter, c. 680 BC, Louvre (CA 1960) A loutrophoros (Ancient Greek: λουτροφόρος; Greek etymology: λουτρόν/loutron and φέρω/pherō, English translation: "bathwater" and "carry") is a distinctive type of Greek pottery vessel characterized by an elongated neck with two handles.