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Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Komos (Revel)
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBlack-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
