Lekythoi in Ancient Greece

As with many antiquities from ancient Greece, we do not know when, by whom, or where the lekythos was made. Lekythoi were used as small oil flasks, which were used at baths, gymnasiums and as funerary offerings. Lekythoi were made with white ground clay and then painted with red and black glaze. It was on a trip to Greece between 1934-1964 that Arthur Stone Dewing bought the Red-Figure Attic Lekythos that is now housed at the Wheaton College Permanent Collection. 

 Text Source:

John H. Oakley, Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (2004)

Image Source:

N/A. Excavations in the Athenian Agora. American School of Classical Studies at Athens 

Found on the ascsa.edu.gr under Excavations at the Athenian Agora.