The Athenian white-ground Lekythoi contained olive oil which was used to fuel lighted oil lamps at the tombs of deceased relatives, much as is the custom in Greece today. The Lekythoi were all decorated with images of the deceased, often with sombre expressions of woeful resignation. ... "Ancient Greece" "Classical Greece" "Ancient Athens" "Classical Athens" Greece "Ancient Greek pottery" Lekythoi "Kerameikos cemetery"