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Source 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.
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95291
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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
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95291
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title
Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
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.
date
c. 500 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60779961
creators
376432
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Ceramic
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
accession
1916.1061
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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel), c. 500 BCE. Attributed to The Group of Cleveland 16.1061 (name vase). Ceramic; overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amadio Canessa, 1916.1061
collection
GR - Greek
formerAccessionNumbers
631.1916
didYouKnow
The small black marks between and around the figures are mock letters, perhaps indicating illiteracy.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 340774
citation
"Accessions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 26
citation
Boulter, C. G. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, United States of America, Fascicule 15, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fascicule 1</em>. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 14, pl. 20
citation
Beazley, J. D. <em>Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition)</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
page_number
p. 213 (name-vase of Group of Cleveland 16.1061)
citation
Carpenter, Thomas H., J. D. Beazley, Thomas Mannack, Melanie Mendonça, and Lucilla Burn. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV² & Paralipomena. </em>Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1989.
page_number
p. 118
citation
Immerwahr, Henry R. <em>A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI)</em>. 1998.
page_number
Reproduced: p 789, cat. 3196
creditline
Gift of Amadio Canessa
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2026-05-29 05:06:23.962000
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95291
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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