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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
c. 500 BCE
attributed to The Group of Cleveland 16.1061
(name vase)
Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Gift of Amadio Canessa 1916.1061
Location: not on view
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The small black marks between and around the figures are mock letters, perhaps indicating illiteracy.Description
Three bearded figures dance or cavort on this oil vessel, each wreathed, loosely draped with a cloak, and holding a staff. The central figure also holds a drinking horn, though all may well have been drinking. The painter of this vase is unknown, but the style of drawing has been linked to a similar vessel now in Syracuse, Sicily.- ?-1916Amadio Canessa, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 340774 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk"Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37. Mentioned: p. 26 www.jstor.orgBoulter, C. G. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, United States of America, Fascicule 15, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fascicule 1. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 14, pl. 20 www.beazley.ox.ac.ukBeazley, J. D. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. p. 213 (name-vase of Group of Cleveland 16.1061)Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989. p. 118Immerwahr, Henry R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI). 1998. Reproduced: p 789, cat. 3196
- Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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