Attic pottery in the sixth to fourth centuries B.C. achieves a fairly broad range within the Persian Empire, taking in Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, the Nile Valley down to Nubia, and, in a limited quantity, appearing at the distant capitals of Babylon and Susa.' Within this range, the same types of Attic pots turn up from site to site, most of which are habitations rather than cemeteries. Lekythoi (perfume flasks) occur in considerable quantities and together with other, more scantily represented flasks-alabastra-amount to over a third of all the pottery. There is a heavy representation as well of kraters (wine bowls) and of kylikes and skyphoi (shallow cups); to a significant extent there also occur elaborately moulded deep goblets of the sort known as rhytons and head vases. Conspicuously lacking are oinochoes (wine-pouring jugs), with only two appearing in a list of 226 blackand red-figure pots in the Near East, exclusive of Anatolia and Cyprus, published by Christoph Clairmont in 1955 and with perhaps none of the period among the black-glaze pieces noted by him.2 One variant among the overall pattern is detectable: in Anatolia oinochoes did find a market, which persisted longer in some regions than in others. At Xanthos in Lycia, o nochoes were imported during the sixth century (21 black-figure ones being known) but not later,3 while at Gordion in Phrygia their import continued into the fifth century, as exemplified by eight red-figure pieces.' The sorts and relative proportions of Attic pottery in the East differ from those known from habitation sites of the Greek world in two key respects: the frequ nce of lekythoi and the extreme lack of oinochoes. In fact, both these aspects seem at variance not only with the finds at Greek sites5 but with the practices and needs of Greek life. Perfume and thus its containers seem to have played a restricted r le in Greek culture. While perfume was freely indulged in by women, its use by men, though not unknown, had come to be suspect by the classical period.' Only in death-at the wake, the funeral, and in the grave-was perfume un-