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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
The Group of Cleveland 16.1061 (name vase)c. 500 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
- Creator: The Group of Cleveland 16.1061 (name vase)
- Date Created: c. 500 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: Amadio Canessa, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1061
- Medium: ceramic
- Fun Fact: The small black marks between and around the figures are mock letters, perhaps indicating illiteracy.
- Department: Greek and Roman Art
- Culture: Greece, Attic
- Credit Line: Gift of Amadio Canessa
- Collection: GR - Greek
- Accession Number: 1916.1061
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