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lekythos

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lekythos

Summary

lekythos ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (240 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • lekythos is a type of vase[2].
  • lekythos is a type of pottery of ancient Greece[3].
  • lekythos is a type of tableware[4].
  • lekythos's Commons category is recorded as Lekythoi[5].
  • lekythos's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lekythoi[6].
  • lekythos's culture is recorded as Ancient Greece[7].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include vase[2], pottery of ancient Greece[3], and tableware[4].

Why It Matters

lekythos ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (240 views/month).[1] lekythos has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Subclass of → vase, pottery of ancient Greece, tableware
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007560517705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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