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Theseus slaying the Minotaur
The lekythos is decorated in Six's technique, in which the background is in black glaze and the figures appear with incised contours through the black glaze or with applied white, red, or brown paint.
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Title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Period: Late Archaic or Early Classical
Date: 2nd half of the 6th century BCE
Culture: Greek, Attic
Medium: Terracotta; Six's technique
Dimensions: H. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Purchase, Robert E. Hecht Jr. Gift, 1963
Object Number: 63.11.5
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