Attic white-ground lekythos with palmette pattern
Medium:Wheel-thrown earthenware, slip-painted
Geography: Made in Athens, Greece; findspot uncertain, but probably Attica
Date: about 500-480 BC
Period: Greek Archaic period
Object number: 923.13.40
Credit Line: Gift of the Members of the Royal Ontario Museum
Gallery Location:
Description
In the
Classical period, this particular type of Athenian oil-flask (lekythos) with a
white background to the decoration (white-ground) was used in
Athenian burials as a gift to the dead and does not appear to have been
exported outside the local region.
