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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)

c. 500 BCE

attributed to The Group of Cleveland 16.1061

(name vase)
Culture
Medium
ceramic
Measurements
Overall: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Amadio Canessa 1916.1061
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The small black marks between and around the figures are mock letters, perhaps indicating illiteracy.

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.
A reddish-orange ceramic lekythos vessel features a slender neck with vertical stripes, a flaring rim, and a circular base. On the body, three bearded men in black wear leafy headbands while dancing right. The central figure carries a staff over their shoulder with a pointed bag attached. A row of teardrop shapes circles the shoulder above a band of dots, with dark bands lining the vessel's lower edge.

Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)

c. 500 BCE

The Group of Cleveland 16.1061

(name vase)

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