1915.114.2

Jar, Greek pottery lekythos found in Rhodes, dated around 500 BC. Black figure design on red background depicting mythological subject matter. The lekythos was a container for oil which the ancient Greeks used to clean themselves by rubbing it on their skin then scraping it off with a metal strigil (scraper).

-500 - -400

5th century BC

painted, turned (pottery technique)