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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Seated Men, Warriors and Horse
c. 510–500 BCE
attributed to Leagros Group
(Greek, Attic, active c. 520–500 BCE)
Overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.)
Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1929.134
Location: 102B Greek
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As usual for lekythoi painted by the Leagros Group, seven palmettes decorate the shoulder.Description
Four men decorate the body of this sturdy oil vessel, perhaps in a scene of homecoming. Unlike on later, white-ground lekythoi, the painter has used white only as an accent—now faded—on the shield and the clothing and broad-brimmed hats of some of the men. The letters scattered across the background do not spell any recognizable Greek words, perhaps suggesting an illiterate painter and/or clientele.- ?-1929Mr. Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1929-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. BAPD 760 www.beazley.ox.ac.ukBoulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971. p. 12, plate 18 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
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