About the Artwork
Attic Black-figure Alabastron with Scene of Komasts
late 6th century BC
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Greek
Unknown
Black-figure ware
Height x Diameter: 6 x 1 7/8 in. (15.2 x 4.8 cm) diameter of mouth: 3.6 cm
Ceramics
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill
70.448
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Provenance
Grosse Pointe Farms, collection Robert H. Tannahill, by whom bequeathed to the DIA in 1970.
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Madigan, B., Corinthian and Attic Vases in the Detroit Institute of Arts, (Monumenta Graeca et Romana), vol. 12, Leiden/Boston, 2008, p. 39, cat. 53, fig. 78 (attributed to the Theseus Painter).
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Greek, Attic Black-figure Alabastron with Scene of Komasts, late 6th century BC, Black-figure ware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill, 70.448.
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