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Lagynos ware is named after the shape most commonly associated with the distinctive decorative style seen on this flask: canonical motifs such as wreaths, olive bows, baskets, and lagynoi themselves painted in a thinned orange-brown slip on a white ground.
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Title: Terracotta lagynos (oil flask)
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 2nd–1st century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: h. 5 7/16 in. (13.9 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1947
Accession Number: 47.11.1
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