Lebes

Lebetes gamikoi stood on variously long or short bases and each typically was painted with a scene of a wedding procession.

For long ago, in the games in honor of Triopian Apollo, they offered certain bronze tripods to the victors; and those who won these were not to carry them away from the temple but dedicate them there to the god.

Now when a man of Halicarnassus called Agasicles won, he disregarded this law, and, carrying the tripod away, nailed it to the wall of his own house.

[5] Remnants of stone inscriptions preserve numerous examples of fines and compensatory damages denominated in bronze lebetes from ancient Crete, as early as the 7th century BCE.

By the Hellenistic period, long after the introduction of coin based money, the lebes survived as a term for a quantity of silver coinage.