Bountiful Lekythos

Wondrous item, rare

Price: 1,000-3,000 gp | low sentimentality

This narrow clay flask stands 10 inches tall and is 4 inches at its widest diameter. It has an elegant thin handle and depicts an image of two people picking olives. It weighs 4 pounds. Meletians tell a tale of Thassa challenging Ephara’s patronage of the city. Seeing how its citizens had to carry water from a nearby spring, Thassa promised that if they voted her as the primary god of Meletis, she’d ensure unlimited water wherever they dug. Excited citizens tested her promise by digging into their fields only for salt water to erupt and kill their crops. Thus Thassa salted the earth and Meletians realized that a god of the sea is best confined to her domain. Coincidentally, that’s around the time that depictions of Ephara began portraying her dumping water from a jar onto the ground. Combined with the fact that Ephara is the only god known to have killed another god by herself, remember the next time someone tells you she’s a minor god: she slays. You can pour up to 32 ounces of regular olive oil—not extra virgin—out of the lekythos each day. The lekythos refills the next dawn. The oil is usable for cooking and can be sold for up to 1 cp per ounce to willing buyers.

Paid

You can pour up to 32 ounces of fragrant, high quality olive oil out of the lekythos each day. The lekythos refills the next dawn. The oil is desirable for many rites, such as weddings and funerals, and can be sold for up to 1 sp per ounce to willing buyers.

Overpaid

You can use 8 ounces of the oil from this lekythos as a substitute for the material components of any divination spell.

Source: The Gray Merchant of Asphodel