Peleus gives Achilles to Cheiron
- Title
- Peleus gives Achilles to Cheiron
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Name Vase Oinochoe Vase B620
- Creator
- Painter of London B 620
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Class of London B 620 (Attic vase painters); attributed to Painter of London B 620 (Attic vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery: white-ground oinochoe. Late black figure style; design black on drab ground, with purple accessories and finely-incised lines. Trefoil mouth, and three-ribbed handle. On the neck, chequer-pattern; below, tongue-pattern, alternately black and outlined. Peleus bringing the infant Achilles to Cheiron: On the left is Cheiron to right, with a horse's body and hind-legs attached behind; he is bearded, with long tresses, striped himation over left shoulder, right hand extended, in left a pine-tree held over the shoulder. In front of him is a tree. On the right is Peleus advancing to left, bearded, with hair curly in front and striped himation, holding the infant Achilles in both arms, the latter also wearing a striped himation. Before them is a dog to right, with right hind-paw and head raised, as if greeting them. The handle terminates on each side of the mouth in a snake's head in relief, with black markings on red; at each junction of the handle with the vase is a female head in relief coloured red, of later date than the rest of the design. Under the handle is a palmette inverted, with tendrils ending in buds. --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
- Side
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 520-500 BCE
- Subject
- Achilles and Chairon Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- oinochoai
- Date
- -0520/-0500
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00321
- Item Locator
- Box 1, Section 19
- 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: 29.21 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- 1867,0508.1009
