Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Containers (hierarchy name)
5. containers (receptacles)
6. [containers by form]
7. vessels (containers)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Containers
5. containers
6. containers by function or context
7. containers for personal use
8. containers for personal grooming and hygiene
9. plemochoai

Anotations

Scope note:

Ancient Greek containers for liquid, perhaps perfume (scented oil), with a very distinctive shape: an oblate spheroid bowl with turned-in rim, short or tall foot, and lid with finial. The lids are rarely preserved. In vase paintings the exaleiptron most often appears in scenes of women bathing or participating in funerary rituals. Other ancient names have sometimes been used in modern times to refer to this vessel shape: kothon, plemochoe, and smematotheke (or smegmatotheke).