{"id":17010,"date":"2026-03-09T22:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=17010"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:30:22","slug":"attic-white-ground-lekythos-warrior-s-farewell-33-5-cm","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/product\/attic-white-ground-lekythos-warrior-s-farewell-33-5-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Attic White-Ground Lekythos: Warrior\u2019s Farewell 33,5 cm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"1085\">This elegant vase is a faithful replica of a <strong data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"844\">Classical Greek white-ground lekythos attributed to the Achilles Painter<\/strong>, one of the most refined vase painters of 5th-century BCE Athens. The original vessel, created around <strong data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"972\">440\u2013435 BCE in Attica<\/strong>, is preserved today in the <strong data-start=\"1000\" data-end=\"1044\">National Archaeological Museum in Athens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1265\">Lekythoi were slender oil flasks made of <strong data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1167\">terracotta with a white-ground slip<\/strong>, typically placed in graves and used in funerary rituals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1267\" data-end=\"1834\">The painted scene depicts an intimate <strong data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1381\">farewell between a seated Athenian woman and a departing hoplite warrior<\/strong>. The warrior stands with spear and shield, holding out his Corinthian helmet, while the woman sits in a domestic interior indicated by hanging objects such as a mirror and jug. The quiet gestures and restrained expressions convey the emotional gravity of departure\u2014possibly a final goodbye before battle or death, a theme common in funerary imagery on white-ground lekythoi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"2018\">With its delicate line drawing and poignant narrative, the original vase is a celebrated example of <strong data-start=\"1936\" data-end=\"2017\">Classical Athenian funerary art and the refined style of the Achilles Painter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2025\" data-end=\"2397\">Replica of a <strong data-start=\"2062\" data-end=\"2110\">white-ground Attic lekythos (c. 440\u2013435 BCE)<\/strong> attributed to the <strong data-start=\"2129\" data-end=\"2149\">Achilles Painter<\/strong>, originally housed in the <strong data-start=\"2176\" data-end=\"2218\">National Archaeological Museum, Athens<\/strong>. The terracotta oil flask depicts a <strong data-start=\"2255\" data-end=\"2334\">touching farewell between an Athenian woman and a departing hoplite warrior<\/strong>, a scene associated with funerary rituals in Classical Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[69,77],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17010","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-pottery","product_cat-attic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/17010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=17010"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythiko.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=17010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}