(Attic shoulder lekythos by the workshop of the Diosphos Painter, c. 500 BC) Shoulder lekythos Shoulder lekythos, c. 510 Deianeria lekythos Prothesis (lying...

athlete on an amphora, 470-460 BC. Nike with bowl and kithara, red-figured lekythos, 460 BC, Blanton Museum of Art. Nike preparing the victor's trophy c. 450...

Acorn lekythos Deianeira lekythos, c. 550 BC. Shoulder or secondary lekythos, c. 500 BC. Standard or cylinder lekythos c.490 BCE. Squat lekythos Loutrophoros...

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...

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)...

representations of Pegasus and Chimaira Pegasus, Attic red-figure squat lekythos, 480–460 BC, from Sicily Parthian era bronze plate depicting Pegasus (Pegaz...

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...

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...

King of Phthia Peleus consigns Achilles to Chiron's care, white-ground lekythos by the Edinburgh Painter, c. 500 BC (National Archaeological Museum of...

Hermes, unusual in that the penis has survived Herm on an Attic red-figure lekythos, 475–450 BC A hermaic sculpture of an old man, probably a philosopher....

Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy; detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, c. 440 BC...

Painter. Type V. The fifth style was polychrome lekythos painting. It replaced Early Classical lekythos painting around the middle of the 5th century BC...

Muse, perhaps Clio, reading a scroll (Attic red-figure lekythos, Boeotia, c. 430 BC)...

proto-heraldic device on the shield of a Greek warrior. Greek Red Figure lekythos vase, c. 470 BC, found in a tomb near Licata, Sicily. Archaeological Museum...

prophecy about the Trojan War. Oinochoe, 520–500 BC, from Vulci White-ground lekythos, ca. 500-475 BC, from Athens, by Diosphos Painter Gandhara, India, 1st...

Eos carries off Cephalus, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 470–460 BCE...

Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art)...

Attic red-figure lekythos attributed to the Tymbos painter showing Charon welcoming a soul into his boat, c. 500–450 BC...

Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420 BC (National...

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....

) Right: seated woman holding a mirror; Ancient Greek Attic red-figure lekythos by the Sabouroff Painter, c. 470–460 BC, National Archaeological Museum...

from the Iliad: Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy; detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, c. 440 BC...

Heracles attacked by the crab and the Lernaean Hydra. White-ground Attic lekythos, c. 500–475 BC....

Relief from a carved funerary lekythos at Athens showing Hermes as psychopomp conducting the soul of the deceased, Myrrhine into Hades (c. 430–420 BC)...

Terracotta lekythos with Boreas abducting Orithyia, 400–375 AD NAMA Greece....

red-figured plate, 520–510 BC. Theseus and the Minotaur. Attic black-figure lekythos, 500–475 BC. From Crimea. Theseus and the Minotaur, black-figure amphora...

style of Achilles Painter, white-ground and black-figure decoration on a lekythos, with additional painting in tempera, starts being made (finished about...

the funerary lekythos found in the tumulus for the Athenians who died in the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The last significant lekythos painter, the...

The Gorgons Stheno and Euryale chasing Perseus; Attic black-figure lekythos, Cabinet des Medailles 277 (550–500 BC)...

had destroyed all traces of this temple. A fifth century BC black-glazed lekythos inscription, found on the island in 1840, reads: "Glaukos, son of Poseidon...