Peleus and Thetis

Title
Peleus and Thetis
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Oinochoe: Vase B500
Creator
Painter of Vatican G. 49
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
attributed to Painter of Vatican G 49 (Greek vase painter, active ca. 500-475 BCE)
Description
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with pomegranates above, and cheque-pattern down the sides; accessories of white and purple, faded. Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with a myrtle-wreath on his head and embroidered drapery round his loins, seizes Thetis round the waist; she moves away to right, looking to left, with arms extended; she has long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered. On the right is an altar with top in the form of an Ionic capital. On the left is a similar Nereid, departing and looking back, with arms extended. The folds of the drapery are indicated in all three figures. In the field, branches. --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) Fikellura Cemetery Tomb 22, Kámiros, 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_00127
Item Locator
Box 1, Section 7
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: 24.765 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
1864,1007.246
Oregon State University Libraries University of Oregon Libraries