The purpose of the lekythos is often reflected in its subject matter.

"He is the great master of the white lekythos.

Early Classical lekythos painting combined shiny slip, mineral paints and non.

Below the tongue pattern is a three flower pattern wrapped around the neck of the lekythos.

Type V. The fifth style was polychrome lekythos painting.

By the end of the Submycenaean period, the stirrup jar was replaced by the lekythos.

By this time, white-ground can be identified most closely with three principal shapes: the lekythos, the krater, and cups.

The lekythos was used for anointing dead bodies of unmarried men and many lekythoi are found in tombs.

Oinochoes, whose form had remained basically unchanged up until that time, began to resemble Attic forms; lekythos also started to be increasingly produced.

Primarily amphoras, lekythos, hydria and plates were painted.

It replaced Early Classical lekythos painting around the middle of the 5th century BC.

They are believed to develop functionally from the lekythos, which they replace by the end of the 4th century BC.

The one-handled lekythos had many household uses, but outside the household, its principal use was the decoration of tombs.

The Sappho Painter specialized in funerary lekythos.

From this time his second showpiece originates, the lekythos in Naples National Archaeological Museum.

In 1962, Greece issued a stamp featuring the decoration of an Achilles Painter white-ground lekythos.

Only workshops which produced smaller shapes like olpes, oenoches, skyphos, small neck amphoras and particular lekythos increasingly used the old style.

Common painted shapes include pelike, chalice krater, belly lekythos, skyphos, hydria and oinochoe.

Thus at the beginning of the 6th century BC a "Deianaira type" of lekythos arose, with an elongated, oval form.

There is also a large South Italian lekythos (a container for perfumed oil) from about 350-340 B.C. that depicts the garden of Hesperides.

A bluish-grey powder might be by the side of a pinkish-white one, and any one in a Phaleron might have its exact counterpart in a lekythos.

In ancient Greece, the lekythos, a type of pottery in ancient Greece, was used for holding oil in funerary rituals.

A lekythos in New York shows a funeral scene, typical of white-ground painting: Achilles is mourning Patroklos; the nereids bring him new weapons.

Some of the innovations included some new Mycenean influenced shapes, such as the belly-handled amphora, the neck handled amphora, the krater, and the lekythos.

The last significant lekythos painter, the Beldam Painter, worked from around 470 BC until 450 BC.