Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) ca. 440 B.C. Attributed to the Achilles Painter Warrior departingThe squat lekythos became a significant shape favored by the best Attic painters of the second half of the fifth century B.C., as the pieces in this gallery attest. The shape seems to have been used for red-figure decoration as the standard lekythos was increasingly decorated in the white-ground techniquea development in which the Achilles Painter played a major role. This example is larger than the usual squat lekythos. The potting and decoration are especially fine.. Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask). Greek, Attic. ca. 440 B.C.. Terracotta; red-figure. Classical. Vases