In ancient Greece, a pottery oil flask used at baths and gymnasiums and for funerary offerings. The flask has a long, cylindrical body gracefully tapered to the base and a narrow neck with a single loop-shaped handle. The body was often covered with white slip and then painted in polychrome. (syn. lecythus; plural lecythi or lekythoi)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, Barbara Ann Kipfer, 2000Copied