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.]
