The white lekythos reproduced in Fig. 1 and Pl. IV is not a recent find. A rough sketch of it, sent from Athens by Urlichs, was published by Emil Braun in Annali dell' Instituto for 1842, pl. L. The vase itself appeared in London at the Norfolk House sale in 1937 (sale catalogue no. 71), and was acquired by me shortly after. It is by the Achilles Painter, number 163 in my list of his works (ARV. p. 644), and belongs to his later middle period, between 440 and 430 B.C. Forty-two and a half centimetres high, it is one of his largest lekythoi, the same height as his well-known' lekythos, with a warrior and a seated woman, Athens 1818 (Riezler pl. 36, whence Pfuhl fig. 543: ARV. p. 643 no. 135). It has a false bottom, like a good many other white lekythoi, and the vent-hole made necessary by this construction is just visible in Fig. 1, on the left, half-way between the lower border and the base-fillet. The other false-bottomed lekythoi by the Achilles Painter have the hole in the same part of the vase. Figures and patterns are drawn in glaze-paint, thinned to brown and golden-brown. A few details are in matt colour, red and black, now much faded. In the middle is the monument, a tapering stele, with gable and acroteria, standing on two steps. Three sashes, in dull black, are tied round the stele. A chaplet, tied into a round, rests on the lower step and leans against the upper; another such chaplet, loose, passes round the foot of the stele and hangs down over the upper step. These objects are often represented both round the heads of revellers and at the tomb or in the basket of offerings brought to it, and other lekythoi by the Achilles Painter show the same arrangement of them as here.
