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Oil, especially olive oil, is stored in a specialized Greek pottery; lekythos (pleural, lekythoi). Many lekythoi were found inside tombs; they were used to anointg the dead bodies of single men. Mainly dull red and black paints were used by artists to decorate these ceramics. This is a scene from Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus and his men tie themselves to the underside of sheep to escape the giant cyclops Polyphemus. Attica, Greece, circa 520 BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)
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