Peleus and Thetis
- Title
- Peleus and Thetis
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Oinochoe Vase B619
- Creator
- Athena Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- workshop of the Athena Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured oinochoe. Trefoil mouth. Design black on white ground, with purple accessories. Peleus seizing Thetis: In the centre is Peleus to right, beardless, with fillet and drapery round loins, stooping forward and seizing Thetis round the body. She moves away to right, looking to left, and has hair looped up under a beaded fillet, and long chiton and himation with purple spots. On the left is a Nereid running away, in a long chiton and himation, as Thetis, holding a wreath in left hand. Under the handle, branches spreading over the field.--The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Kámiros, Rhodes, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- 500-480 BCE
- Subject
- Peleus Lifts Thetis Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- oinochoai
- Date
- -0500/-0480
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00255
- Item Locator
- Box 1, Section 14
- 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: 22.86 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted; incised
- 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
- 1864,1007.161
