sentences:  Vases in use are sometimes depicted in paintings on vases, which can help scholars interpret written descriptions.Much of our written information about Greek pots comes from such late writers as Athenaios and Pollux and other lexicographers who described vases unknown to them, and their accounts are often contradictory or confused.With those caveats, the names of Greek vases are fairly well settled, even if such names are a matter of convention rather than historical fact.