Weighing of Souls
- Title
- Weighing of Souls
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Vase B639
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured lekythos: the Weighing of Souls. Design black on drab ground, with purple accessories. On the shoulder, lotus-buds; on the body, above, an ivy-wreath. Contest of Achilles and Memnon (or Hector): On either side is a warrior, bearded and fully armed, thrusting with spear, each having a short chiton with purple spots; the one on the left has a Boeotian shield, the other has the device of a crab (?). In the centre Hermes Pyschopompos to right, bearded, with petasos, short chiton and chlamys, both with purple spots, and endromides, holds out a pair of scales in left hand, each scale containing a small winged male figure, representing the souls of the two heroes. In the field, imitation inscriptions. --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; Detail
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 490-480 BCE
- Subject
- Iliad Book 16 Iliad Book 2-16 Pychostasia, Hypnos and Thanatos
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0490/-0480
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00945
- Item Locator
- Box 2, Section 28
- 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: 14.605 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
- 1873,0820.300
