The Tymbos Painter specialized in decorating lekythoi in the white-ground technique. In the period around 460 B.C., when he worked in Athens, white-ground lekythoi were used almost exclusively as funerary offerings; the scenes he chose for his vases tended to reflect this function. The Tymbos Painter was not a good draftsman and he was often hasty, as the carelessly drawn bars that cover the shoul
