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| Keywords: Thanatos Painter - White-Ground Lekythos - Walters 482012 - Back.jpg The women of the family were responsible for tending the graves of the dead and are frequently depicted on delicate lekythoi or oil-containers such as this one carrying out this activity A mourning woman bends over a tomb as a youth approaches her unseen He represents the deceased whom the Greeks believed lingered near the tomb after death Many lekythoi intended for funerary use were decorated in the delicate white-ground technique which used colorful pigments lightly painted on a white background The pigments flake off easily often leaving only the preliminary drawing as on the woman's dress here between 440 430 BC Classical terracotta cm 29 1 9 2 h x diam accession number 48 2012 3135 Nicolas Koutoulakis Galerie Segredakis Paris Walters Art Museum 1948 by purchase Museum purchase 1948 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek pottery in the Walters Art Museum Thanatos Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review White-ground lekythoi | ||||
