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accession number:	1929.978
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Black-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Europa on Bull, c. 530 BC. Attributed to Class of Vatican 440 (Greek, Attic). Ceramic; overall: 23.6 cm (9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.978

title:				Black-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe (Wine Jug): Europa on Bull
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creation date:			c. 530 BC
creation date earliest:		-535
creation date latest:		-525
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Greek, Attic
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Class of Vatican 440 (Greek, Attic)  - artist
Attic vase painters
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measurements: Overall: 23.6 cm (9 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		Juxtapositions
	opening date:   1965-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Juxtapositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Mr. Mario de Ciccio, Naples, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1929
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1929-
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fun fact:
The continent of Europe takes its name from Europa, a Phoenician princess abducted by Zeus.

digital description:
Calmly seated sidesaddle on a bull, the woman depicted on the front of this small wine jug probably represents Europa, the Phoenician princess abducted by the Greek god Zeus. According to myth, Zeus either sent a bull or transformed himself into one, then carried Europa across the sea to Crete. There, she bore Zeus two or three sons, including the legendary king Minos. The bull ascended to the sky as the constellation Taurus.

wall description:
Zeus, in the form of a bull, abducts Europa.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
	page number: 	BAPD 303205
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/BB0AE0C5-C73F-46B2-ACAD-3E2303E1691F

	Cox, Warren E. <em>The Book of Pottery and Porcelain. </em>New York: L. Lee and Shepard Co.; distributed by Crown Publishers, 1944.
	page number: 	Vol. I, p. 53, pl. 12.
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	Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters.</em> Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
	page number: 	p. 422, No. 43
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	Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
	page number: 	p. 12, plate 17, 3-4
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/XDB/ASP/browseCVARecord.asp?id={BB0AE0C5-C73F-46B2-ACAD-3E2303E1691F}&startRef=

	<em>Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae </em>(LIMC). Zürich: Artemis, 1981.
	page number: 	IV, PL.34, EUROPA I 29, p. 169, Fig.11
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	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. 109
	url:		

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