Achilles painter, lekythos (love persecution), clay, quickly turned, painted (ceramic), alternately fired, clay, total: height: cm; muzzle diameter: cm; base diameter: cm, inscription: under base of vessel: III, Ceramics, History of Jupiter (Zeus), High Classical (Greek antiquity), lekyths served as vessels for anointing oil and perfume; while the term was used more broadly in antiquity, archaeology today refers mainly to vessels of this form as lekyths. The picture of the Attic-red lekythos, created around 450 BC, shows the father of the gods Zeus pursuing love.

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