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    "localId": "142277",
    "label": "White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes",
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    "id": "142277",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes",
    "description": "Known as \"white-ground\" because of the white clay slip applied as a surface for figural decoration, vases of this type give some idea of the appearance of lost ancient large-scale wall paintings. Both remarkably well preserved and masterfully composed, the images cover the entire circumference of the vase. At the center, Atalanta, the virgin huntress renowned for both her speed and her opposition to marriage, races to the right while looking back at Eros, the winged god of love; both figures are named. This Eros, bounding forward, tries to crown her, while two additional Erotes (also named) further hem her in. Love will win.",
    "date": "c. 500–490 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.114",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60757832"
    ],
    "creators": [
        10899
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Greek, Attic"
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    "accession": "1966.114"
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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes, c. 500–490 BCE. Attributed to Douris (Greek, Attic, active c. 500–470 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1966.114",
    "collection": "GR - Greek",
    "didYouKnow": "Eros, god of love, appears three times on this vase.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.",
            "page_number": "BAPD 275976",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/9654108D-7528-4E08-B721-1910261E00C2"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 20",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cooney, John D. \"Atalanta in Cleveland.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>53, no. 8 (October 1966): 318 - 325<em>. </em>",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 318-325",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152115"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Stechow, Wolfgang. \"Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions.\" <em>Artnews</em> 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 32-33"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 20",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Simon, Erika. <em>Meleager Und Atalante: ein Spätantiker Wandbehang.</em> Bern: Abegg-Stiftung, 1970.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 17-18; Reproduced p. 18 fig. 4."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Beazley, J. D.<em> Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters </em>(Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 376, No. 266BIS"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg.<em> Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.",
            "page_number": "p. 21, plates 32-34, 35, I",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={9654108D-7528-4E08-B721-1910261E00C2}&startRef="
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boulter, Cedric G. \"The Douris Lekythos in Cleveland.\" <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 79, no. 3 (1975): 282-83."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Kurtz, Donna. <em>Athenian White Lekythoi: Patterns and Painters.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 27-32, 128, 200. Reproduced p. 29, 78, Plates 10.2, 11."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Adams, Celeste, Jay Gates, and Gabriel P. Weisberg. “The Art Museum and the High School: The Advanced Placement Approach to the History of Art.” <em>Art Journal</em> 35, no. 1 (1975): 33–36.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced p. 35, fig. 2.",
            "url": "https://doi.org/10.2307/775840"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boardman, John. <em>Athenian Red Figure Vases, the Archaic Period : A Handbook.</em> London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.",
            "page_number": "P. 139, fig. 294."
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 23",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n43"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. <em>Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections</em>. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 184-185, cat. 104",
            "url": "https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D104"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Schefold, Karl, and Franz Jung. <em>Die Göttersage in Der Klassischen Und Hellenistischen Kunst</em>. München: Hirmer, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced p. 194"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14, fig. 16"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Boardman, John. “Atalanta.” <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies</em> 10 (1983): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/4104327."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn.<em> Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² &amp; Paralipomena</em>. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.",
            "page_number": "p. 241"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H. <em>Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook. </em>London: Thames and Hudson, 1991.",
            "page_number": "fig. 93"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Galinsky, Karl. “Venus, Polysemy, and the Ara Pacis Augustae.” <em>American Journal of Archaeology</em> 96, no. 3 (1992): 457–75.",
            "url": "https://doi.org/10.2307/506068"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Scheibler, Ingeborg. <em>Griechische Malerei Der Antike</em>. München: C.H. Beck, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 114, #48"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. <em>A Survey of Historic Costume : A History of Western Dress</em>. 2nd ed. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 38, reproduced p. 47 Fig. 3.5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Reeder, Ellen D.<em> Pandora: Women in Classical Greece</em>. Baltimore, Md: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1995.",
            "page_number": "p. 71, fig. 19"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Buitron-Oliver, Diana. \"Stories from the Trojan Cycle in the Work of Douris.\" In Jane B. Carter, and Sarah P. Morris, eds. <em>The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule.</em> 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 437-447.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 448-430, reproduced figs. 27.5-27.7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Buitron-Oliver, Diana<em>. Douris: A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases.</em> Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1995.",
            "page_number": "PL.31, NO.47"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Barringer, Judith M. \"Atalanta as Model: The Hunter and the Hunted.\" <em>Classical Antiquity</em> 15, no. 1 (1996)",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 73, reproduced fig. 29",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25011031"
        },
        {
            "citation": "March, Jennifer R. <em>Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology.</em> London: Cassell, 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 153, fig. 54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Immerwahr, Henry R.<em> A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI).</em> [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 792,  no. 3204"
        },
        {
            "citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
            "page_number": "p. 116, no. 11"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Scanlon, Thomas Francis. <em>Eros and Greek Athletics</em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p.182, reproduced fig. 7-1."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Barringer, Judith M. <em>The Hunt in Ancient Greece. </em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.",
            "page_number": "Figs. 92-93, pp. 168-169"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Oakley, John Howard.<em> Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi.</em> New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.",
            "page_number": "plate 4a"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Dipla, Anthi, \"Eros the mediator: Persuasion and seduction in pursuit, courting and wedding scenes.\"<em> Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry </em>6, no. 2 (2006): 19-35.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 21, footnote 9."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Franklin, David. <em>Director's Choice:The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 12-13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Franklin, David C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 34-35"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and David Franklin. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.",
            "page_number": "pp. 12-13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Dipla, Anthi and Dimitris Paleothodoros, \"Selected for the Dead: Erotic Themes on Grave Vases from Attic Cemeteries,\" in Danielsson, Ing-Marie Back, Fredrik Fahlander, and Ylva Sjöstrand, eds. <em>Encountering Imagery: Materialities, Perceptions, Relations.</em> Stockholm: Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, 2012. p. 209-233",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 225"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 81"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Vergara Cerqueira, Fábio. \"Abordagens mitológicas na iconografia funerária da cerâmica ática (510-450 A.C.): repensando a periodização.\" <em>Classica: Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos </em>27, no 1. (2014): 83-128",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 114 note 40."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Williams, Dyfri. \"Beyond the Berlin Painter: Toward a Workshop View.\" In <em>The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. </em>J. Michael Padgett,J ed., 144-187. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, Connecticut: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 171, fig. 17"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hopper, Robin. <em>Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose. </em>2017.",
            "page_number": "p. 51"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Rodríguez López, María Isabel. “Atalante and Hippomenes: Iconographic Recreation of a Myth”. <em>Eikón / Imago</em> 7 (June 11, 2018): 167–196",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 170-171; reproduced Fig. 1",
            "url": "https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.73574"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Zachari, Vasiliki, Elise Lehoux and Noémie Hosoi. <em>La Cité des Regards: autour de François Lissarrague</em>. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 210, fig. 3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Esteban Santos, Alicia. \"Iconography of Themes in Greek Lyric: The Example of Anacreon's Poetry,\" In Alejandro Cantarero de Salaza, Alicia Esteban Santos, and Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado eds.,<em> Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence: Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema.</em> Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020. p. 213-259",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 220-221, reproduced p. 220"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Reid, Heather. “Heroic <em>Parthenoi</em> and the Virtues of Independence: A Feminine Philosophical Perspective on the Origins of Women’s Sport.” <em>Sport, Ethics and Philosophy</em> 14, no.4 (2020): 511–24.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned p. 516"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carpenter, Thomas H. <em>Art and Myth in Ancient Greece</em>. New edition. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 87-88, fig. 79."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.114",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-16 11:13:04.824000",
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    "sourceId": 142277,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
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        "male"
    ],
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