id: 142277 accession number: 1966.114 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.114 updated: 2019-07-26 08:00:21.466000 The Atalanta Lekythos (Funerary Oil Jug), 500-490 BC. Attributed to Douris (Greek). Painted white-ground terracotta; overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1966.114 title: The Atalanta Lekythos (Funerary Oil Jug) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 500-490 BC creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 490 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Attic, early 5th Century technique: painted white-ground terracotta department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Douris (Greek) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-06-30T04:00:00 The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Funeral rites in ancient Greece involved the dedication of special vessels, such as this exquisite white-ground oil container called a lekythos. The delicacy of line, complex composition, and well-preserved condition distinguish this vase as one of the finest of its type to have survived from antiquity. digital description: wall description: The extraordinary intact conditon of the fragile white ground and the spirited yet delicate drawing have made the vase renowned as one of the finest white ground lekythoi in existence. Atalanta, who would marry only the man who could beat her in a foot race, is here being teased by three Erotes, winged gods of love. Each figure is identified by name: EPOS and ATALANTE. Douris was an Athenian vase painter who was active from about 500–460 BC. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 275976 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/9654108D-7528-4E08-B721-1910261E00C2 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n44 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n42 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n43 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n23 Williams, Dyfri. "Beyond the Berlin Painter: Toward a Workshop View." In The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. J. Michael Padgett,J ed., 144-187. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, Connecticut: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 171, fig. 17 url: Moon, Warren G. and Louise Berge. Greek Vase-Painting in Midwestern Collections. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 184-185, cat. 104 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.114/1966.114_full.tif