Early red-figured type of squat shape with large flat foot. ] [Illustration: Lekythos of the finest type with slender body and high neck and handle. ] [Illustration: Lekythos of the later fifth century, of exaggerated slenderness. ] [Illustration: Squat lekythos with broad flat foot, a shape popular among the later Athenian potters. ] TOILET JARS. [Illustration: Alabastron, for holding oil or perfumes. ] [Illustration: Aryballos, oil-jug. Vases of this shape are often seen suspended from the wrists of athletes. ] [Illustration: Vase (the ancient plemochoë?), probably used for holding perfumes, a shape intermediate between the pyxis and the lekane. Note the delicately executed knob serving as handle to the lid. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ] TOILET JARS—PYXIS. Small terracotta box for holding toilet articles. It regularly has a cover provided with a knob or a bronze ring for handle. [Illustration: Black-figured pyxis with a loop handle on the cover. ] [Illustration: White pyxis of conspicuously beautiful design and execution, decorated with figures in color on a white ground. In the foot are three notches for easier handling. ] [Illustration: White pyxis of design similar to the preceding, but with elongated instead of arched knob. It also is an exceptionally fine product of the potter’s art. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ] [Illustration: Red-figured pyxis with high foot and knob-shaped handle. ] [Illustration: Red-figured pyxis with cylindrical body and low, broad foot. ] [Illustration: Red-figured pyxis of the late fifth century with low, broad body and a bronze ring on the cover. ] [Illustration: Red-figured pyxis of cylindrical shape and no handle on the lid. ] [Illustration: Red-figured pyxis of late date with the knob in the form of a knucklebone. ] [Illustration: Small pyxis of attractive design delicately worked. ] [Illustration: Small cylindrical pyxis without handle. ] ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ATTIC VASES. The theory has often been advanced that the painted black-figured and red-figured vases were made for decoration and for votive and funeral purposes but not for actual use. The following illustrations from Attic vases show some of the best-known types in use in the daily life of the Greeks, and thus furnish us with contemporary evidence that the vases were made to serve the purposes for which they are so well adapted. [Illustration: Scene on a red-figured stamnos. Three women are filling cups, a kantharos, and a phiale, from a stamnos placed on a table. The stamnos contains the mixture of wine and water which formed the regular drink of the Greeks. ] [Illustration: