The image is a photograph of a piece of paper with text written in Greek. The text reads "White-ground vases - Reflections of lost paintings? Although ancient literary sources speak of great painters who lived and worked in the Classical period, only a few fragmentary pieces of painting have been preserved. However, distant echoes of the painting tradition appear to have survived in white ground vases, which were produced in Attica during the 5th century BC. These vases served mainly as grave offerings, had rich colour decoration against a white ground, perhaps in imitation of wall-and-panel paintings of the same period, which are thought to have had white backgrounds as well. Vase-painters also attempted to render the details of distinct architectural elements in order to convey a sense of the three-dimensional space. In another category of white-ground vases from Corinth, we encounter caricature renderers of human and mythical characters. This is one of the very rare cases in which ancient Greek iconography treats reality with a sense for humour."