Thetis bringing Armor
- Title
- Thetis bringing Armor
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Figure Terracotta 2170
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Hellenistic (artist)
- Description
- Terracotta figure of Nereid sitting on the arching tail of a hippocamp that moves to viewer's right, she is holding a large Corinthian helmet in her arms, modeled in great detail. Orange clay, white coating, rose-madder on tail, red on hair of Nereid, blue on hippocamp's body. Thetis riding on a sea-horse, holding the helmet she will give to her son Achilles. --The British Museum Burn, Lucilla; Higgins, Reynold; Walters, H B; Bailey, D M, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1903
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (creation)
- Temporal
- 4th century BCE
- Subject
- Iliad Book 19 Iliad II Thetis brings arms
- Style Period
- Early Hellenistic Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- figures (representations)
- Date
- -0400/-0300
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01099
- Item Locator
- Box 3, Section 9
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 9 cm
- Material
- terracotta
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1907,0517.1
