Decoration: Body: ATALANTE BETWEEN EROTES WITH WREATHS AND SPRIGS
Last Recorded Collection: Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 66.114
Previous Collections:
Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 1966.114
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 168-169, FIGS.92-93 (BD) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 376.266BIS Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.31, NO.47 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.93 (PART) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 241 Classical Antiquity: 15 (1996) FIGS.29A-B AT P.77 (PARTS) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CLEVELAND, MUSEUM OF ART 1, 21-23, PLS.(712-714,715) 32.1-3, 33.1-2, 34.1-2, 35.1 View Whole CVA Plates Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): COLOUR PLATE 4A (COLOUR OF PART) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): 171, FIG.17 (COLOUR OF PART) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 71, FIG.19 (PART) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 348, FIG.32.9 (BD) Zachari, V. et al. (eds.), La cite des regards, Autour de Francois Lissarrague (Rennes, 2019): 210, FIG.3 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ITALY. DOURIS. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. 500-490 (KOZLOFF){1}.
CAVI Subject: ATALANTE RUNNING, WITH A WREATH IN HER RIGHT HAND, WHILE LOOKING BACK; AT
LEFT, TWO FLYING EROTES WITH TENDRILS, THE ONE CLOSER TO A ALSO CARRYING A
WREATH. AT RIGHT, EROS, FLYING, WITH TENDRILS.
CAVI Inscriptions: ABOVE ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE LEFT EROS IN FRONT: Ερος. ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE
EROS IN THE REAR: Ερος. TO UPPER RIGHT OF ATALANTA'S HEAD: Αταλαντε. TO LEFT OF
THE RIGHT EROS' CHEST: Ε{ι}ρος, RETR.{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} TRANSITIONAL I (RICH) (B.-O.). {2} B.-O., DOURIS GIVES Επος, PROBABLY FOR
THIS FORM.
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY COMPARES THE WG LEKYTHOS BY DOURIS, PALERMO NI 1886; KOZLOFF COMPARES
ANOTHER WG LEKYTHOS BY DOURIS, NOW MALIBU 84.AE,770 (CF. ATTSCR (1990), 85). THE
LAST IS VERY EARLY, THE OTHERS ARE SAID TO BE EARLY MIDDLE; ALL ARE INSCRIBED IN
DOURIS' EARLY STYLE. SEE ALSO B.-O. IN NOTE 1, BELOW. ROBERTSON (1992), 86
THINKS ALL THREE LEKYTHOI VERY EARLY AND THAT IS PROBABLY RIGHT. - BROMMER
THOUGHT THE INSCRIPTIONS NOT GENUINE: ATALANTA PURSUED BY 4 EROTES IS UNIQUE, AS
IS ALSO THE REPETITION OF THE WORD EROS. HE SUGGESTED THE ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION
MIGHT HAVE BEEN APHRODITE. BOULTER REPLIED IN AJA THAT ULTRA-VIOLET EXAMINATION
DID NOT SHOW RESTORATION IN THE NAME [THERE IS REPAINTING IN THE TENDRILS AND
WREATHS.]
