Vessel Shapes
Exekias doesn't seem to have been specialized in a specific vessel type. Among the vases made or decorated by him are belly amphorae, Type A cups, calyx craters, Little master cups, Siana cups, dinoi, pyxides and a Panathenaic amphora. Probably his most unusual works is represented in two series of funerary plaques found in Athens (Berlin Antikensammlung 1811, 1814). The plaques, showing the funerary ritual for a deceased man, were probably attached to the walls of a funerary monument, either in- or outside.
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