{"data": {"id": 110059, "accession_number": "1928.660", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Warrior Cutting Hair, c. 480\u2013470 BCE. Attributed to Oionokles Painter (Greek, Attic, active c. 480\u2013460 BCE). Ceramic; overall: 43.5 x 16.5 cm (17 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund, 1928.660", "current_location": "102B Greek", "title": "Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Warrior Cutting Hair", "creation_date": "c. 480\u2013470 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -485, "creation_date_latest": -465, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Greek, Attic"], "technique": "ceramic", "support_materials": [], "department": "Greek and Roman Art", "collection": "GR - Greek", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 43.5 x 16.5 cm (17 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.435, "height_inch": 17, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125, "width": 0.165, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 442390, "title": "Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections", "description": "<i>Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections</i>. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (December 22, 1979-February 24, 1980).", "opening_date": "1979-12-22T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1928", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1928-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The painter lavished great detail on this warrior\u2019s armor, even including a lion on his helmet\u2019s cheekpiece!", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Whether cutting his hair or combing it, this solitary warrior seems to be contemplating his fate. If mythological, he may be Parthenopaios or another of the ill-fated Seven Against Thebes, a band of warriors tasked with overthrowing that central Greek city. The Seven left mementos for their loved ones before departing, and he may be cutting a lock of hair for this reason. The same motive might apply to historical soldiers as well, and he may represent one of the many Greeks who battled the Persians around the time this vase was made. Unfortunately, the inscriptions painted on either side of the figure seem to be nonsense\u2014actual Greek letters that do not spell out recognizable names or words.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60755092"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1928.660-red-figure-lekythos"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.", "page_number": "BAPD 207549", "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/CF966993-0D10-4B37-BF99-97D69FEED3BB"}, {"citation": "Carter, Martha L. <em>Classical Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cover", "url": "https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n3"}, {"citation": "Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.", "page_number": "p. 648, No. 37", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 20", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 20", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42"}, {"citation": "Thompson, Dorothy Burr. <em>An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora</em>. <em>(Excavations of the Athenian Agora, Picture Book No. 12). </em>Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971.", "page_number": "p. 19, fig. 35.", "url": null}, {"citation": "Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. 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Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.", "page_number": "Reproduced & mentioned: pp. 164-165, cat. 94", "url": "https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0045%3Aentry%3D94"}, {"citation": "Burn, Lucilla, Ruth Glynn, and J. D. Beazley. <em>Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV\u00b2 &amp; Paralipomena. </em>Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "p. 134", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 17, no. 19", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Elfriede R. Knauer, \"<em>Ou gar en amis</em>: A Chous by the Oionokles Painter,\" <em>Greek Vases in the J. 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