This lekythos depicts a youth and a woman flanking a funerary stele while performing funerary rights in remembrance of the deceased. Their somber expressions reveal a sense of loss. The lekythos’ decoration is related to the function of the pot, which was used to store oil that anointed the body of the dead during funeral ceremonies.

White-ground Lekythos
Greek, Classical Period
ca. 425 B.C.E.
Pottery
(2000.1)
Weinberg Fund