lekythosn.
/ˈliːkɪθɒs//ˈlɛkɪθɒs/ Ancient Greek History.
A vase or flask with a narrow neck.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > flask > other types of flask
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1851 Catal. Greek & Etruscan Vases Brit. Mus. I. 27 Lékythos... Clay ash-coloured; round the body brown and crimson bands.
1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 40 A small vase in the Museum..exactly resembles a lecythus, or oil cruse.
1889 Athenæum 4 May 575/3 Two white and black lecythi.
1899 R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament 77 A vase produced specially for funeral purposes was the Athenian Lekythos, the body of which was covered with white slip, then painted in polychrome with subjects of singular appropriateness.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1054/1 Athenian white lekythoi.
1948 A. Lane Greek Pottery iv. 54 The white slip was easily chipped or abraded, and the technique was mainly reserved for..lekythoi that were buried with the dead.
1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 246/2 Lekythos,..a narrow-necked flask or vase well adapted (from its long narrow neck) for the slow pouring of oil, chiefly used in funeral rites.
1972 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. CII. Suppl. No. 3. 20 White ground lekythos by the Inscription Painter, Attic, mid-5th century b.c.
Derivatives
ˈlecythoid adj. resembling a lekythos.
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1889 Athenæum 4 May 575/3 From the same tomb came..a black-figured lecythoid vase.
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