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    "localId": "95291",
    "label": "Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)",
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    "id": "95291",
    "contentType": "object",
    "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",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1061",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60779961"
    ],
    "creators": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1061/1916.1061_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1061/1916.1061_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1061/1916.1061_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)",
    "accession": "1916.1061"
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    "tec": "ceramic",
    "tombstone": "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",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/0C318E90-3E19-4A11-9C38-42334F639439"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 26",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136070"
        },
        {
            "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",
            "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={0C318E90-3E19-4A11-9C38-42334F639439}&startRef="
        },
        {
            "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 &amp; 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"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1061",
    "creditline": "Gift of Amadio Canessa",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:06:23.962000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1061/1916.1061_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 95291,
    "dept": "Greek and Roman Art",
    "coll": "GR - Greek",
    "med": "ceramic",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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