Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Title: Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Repository: British Museum
Alternative: Hydria Old Catalogue 460 Vase B339
Photographer: Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display: attributed to Group of London B 339 (Greek vase painters)
Description: Pottery: black-figured hydria. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Contest of Achilles and Memnon?: In the centre lies the body of Antilochos (?) flat on the face, the head to left; he is nude and beardless. Over it Achilles and Memnon are confronted, both fully armed, with spears and Boeotian shields; that of Memnon has a rosette, incised, between four pellets, painted; Achilles also has a sword. Behind them are two beardless male figures, looking on, with long hair, fillets, long chitons and striped himatia; behind each of these, a beardless male figure, also looking on, wearing a fillet and chlamys; all four hold wands. 2. On the body: Marriage procession: A quadriga to right, in which are a beardless male figure with fillet, long chiton, and himation, holding reins in both hands, and a female figure in a long purple chiton and himation over her head. By the side of the quadriga walks a female figure with long hair, fillet, long chiton, and embroidered himation, clapping her hands. In advance, at further side of horses and looking back towards her, is a male figure with fillet, long white chiton, and striped himation, playing on the chelys. At the horses' heads is the proegetes (leader of the procession) to right, looking back; he has petasos, chlamys, endromides, and caduceus. In the field above is inscribed Λυσιππίδης καλός, Ρόδον καλέ. 3. Below, a frieze of animals: In the centre a Siren to right looking back, with wings outspread; on either side a panther and doe confronted. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
Inscription: Inscription Type: inscription Inscription Content: Λυσιππίδης καλός, Ρόδον καλέ --The British Museum
View: Front
Coverage: Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Temporal: ca. 520 BCE
Subject: Peleus Lifts Thetis Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Style Period: Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type: hydriae
Date: -0525/-0515
Identifier: Lowenstam_VRC_00128
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: 51.308 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) Archaic (Greek culture or period)
Id Current Repository: 1843,1103.65