Note 103 — I. Preservation of Objects composed of Inorganic Substances.

[Lecythoi: slender narrow-necked painted vessels which were frequently burnt or buried with the dead; cp. Aristophanes, “Ecclesiazusae,” 996:

ὁς τοῖς νεκροῖσι ζωγραφεῖ τὰς ληκύθους Transl.]