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The lekythos was used for anointing unmarried women's dead bodies, and many lekythoi are found in tombs. The images on lekythoi were often depictions of daily activities or rituals. Because they are so often used in funerary situations, they may also depict funerary rites, a scene of loss, or a sense of departure as a form of funerary art ...
One example of a white-ground lekythos by the Thanatos Painter is a vase in the Art Walters Museum (440–430 BCE). [3] The women are mourning over a deceased family member. There is a male figure approaching from the right side of the lekythos that is unseen by the women. He is a representation of the deceased family member. [3]
English: Attic funerary lekythos for Myrrhine, represented while she is taken by hand by Hermes psychopompos to be escorted to Hades. From Athens, circa 420/410 BC. From Athens, circa 420/410 BC. On display in Room 10 of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens .
Attic white-ground lekythos (type I) depicting Heracles fighting Geryon, Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum, Palermo Spinning woman, Attic oinochoe (type III), probably from Locri, by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 BC. White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white ...
A lekythos by the Reed Painter is one of only a few white-figure examples that depict a horseman at a tomb; unusually, the youth sits at the tomb with his horse rather than riding it. [3] He may be an ephebe in training for the cavalry, as he wears the black cloak ( chlamys ) that was characteristic attire for the Athenian ephebe at certain ...
The lekythos was another style of funerary vase that usually held ritual oil. It had a slender body with a single handle. One famous artist of lekythoi was the Achilles Painter. Funeral lekythoi were often painted in the white ground technique. The kylix, popular at symposiums, was a stout drinking cup with a very wide bowl.
The fragments of these large funerary vases show mainly processions of chariots or warriors or of the funerary scenes: πρόθεσις (prothesis; exposure and lamentation of dead) or ἐκφορά (ekphora; transport of the coffin to the cemetery). The bodies are represented in a geometrical way except for the calves, which are rather ...
Many funerary steles show the deceased, usually sitting or sometimes standing, clasping the hand of a standing survivor, often the spouse. When a third onlooker is present, the figure may be their adult child. Women played a major role in funeral rites. They were in charge of preparing the body, which was washed, anointed and adorned with a wreath.