Lekythos
- Description
- A lekythos was a small container for oil which was used rubbed onto the skin and scraped from the body with a strigil to leave the skin clean. They are often associated with funeral practice in Ancient Greece. This one is decorated with horizontal bands of varying widths and palmettes.
- Accession Loan No.
- 36/1927/23
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Common Name
- lekythos
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Full Name
- lekythos
- Cultural Group
- Greek
- Family Group
- Material
- pottery
- Collector / Excavator
- Forbes, J de B, Rev
- Collection Site Name
- Necropolis at Marsala (Lilybaeum), Sicily
- Collection Town
- Marsala
- Collection County
- Sicily
- Collection Country
- Italy
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
