Black-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Seated Men, Warriors and Horse
attributed to Leagros Group (Greek, Attic, active c. 520–500 BCE)
c. 510–500 BCE
- Medium
- ceramic
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Four men decorate the body of this sturdy oil vessel, perhaps in a scene of homecoming. Unlike on later, white-ground lekythoi, the painter has used white only as an accent—now faded—on the shield and the clothing and broad-brimmed hats of some of the men. The letters scattered across the background do not spell any recognizable Greek words, perhaps suggesting an illiterate painter and/or clientele.
