Squat lekythos
This is an ancient Greek red-figure ware juglet called a ‘lekythos’. This type of jug was used for storing oil, often for funerary use. It has a ring base, round body, thin neck and with a tall rim. The decoration shows a male figure crawling towards an abstract scroll pattern.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 439/1975
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Material
- potteryred figure ware
- Common Name
- squat lekythos
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Production Town
- neighbourhood of Athens
- Production County
- Attika
- Production Country
- Greece
