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accession number:	2022.42
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Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena between Cocks and Hieropoioi (Officials), 500–485 BCE. Attributed to Athena Painter (Greek, c. 500–475 BCE). Ceramic; diameter: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); height: 29.7 cm (11 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2022.42

title:				Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena between Cocks and Hieropoioi (Officials)
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creation date:			500–485 BCE
creation date earliest:		-500
creation date latest:		-485
current location:		102B Greek
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Greek, Attic
technique:	Ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Ceramic
find spot:	Reportedly found at Gela in Sicily
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CREATORS

* Athena Painter (Greek, c. 500–475 BCE) 
Attic vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE
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measurements: Diameter: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); height: 29.7 cm (11 11/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	IEPOS
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	inscription:	NOLO and UON
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	inscription:	O.EROIPOS
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Jacob Hirsch Collection, New York, NY
	date: by 1933
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	Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, deaccessioned
	date: 1933-2007
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	(Sale: Sotheby's, New York, NY, June 7, 2007, lot 34)
	date: June 7, 2007
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	Phoenix Ancient Art, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2007-2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>
	page number: 	no. 330737
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/5C68D513-3878-46B9-984A-C317F845F762

	Haspels, Caroline Henriette Emilie. <em>Attic Black Figured Lekythoi</em>. Paris, 1936.
	page number: 	p. 256, Appendix XV, No. 34
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	Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts.<em> Blue Book of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, in Which Is Incorporated the Albright Art Gallery and the Albright Art School: 1931-1942</em>. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1943.
	page number: 	pp. 60 and 121, Fig. a
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	Margarete Bieber, "Two Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi in Buffalo,"<em> American Journal of Archaeology</em>, Vol. 48/2, 1944.
	page number: 	pp. 121-129, Fig. 2
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	Dunman Ure, Anne "Koes," <em>Journal of Hellenic Studies</em>, Vol. 71, 1951.
	page number: 	pl. XLII
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	Beazley, J. D. <em>Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters. </em>Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
	page number: 	p. 522, no. 34
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	Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Steven A. Nash, Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik, and Emese Wood.<em> Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942</em>. 1979.
	page number: 	pp. 60-61
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	Shapiro, H. A. <em>Art and Cult Under the Tyrants in Athens.</em> Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1989.
	page number: 	pl.15A (part)
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	Neils, Jenifer. <em>Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens </em>: [Exhibition catalogue]. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992.
	page number: 	pp. 18 and 182, no. 55
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	Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Antiquities: Including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.</em> New York: Sotheby's, 2007.
	page number: 	no. 34, pp. 50-51
	url:		https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/egyptian-classical-and-western-asiatic-antiquities-including-property-of-the-albright-knox-art-gallery-n08325/lot.34.html?locale=en

	"New on View.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 62, no. 3 (September, 2022): Back cover.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover.
	url:		

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