Peleus and Thetis
- Title
- Peleus and Thetis
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Hydria Vase B39
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Archaic Greek (vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured hydria. Design in black on a red panel, with maeander and palmettes above, and borders of dots down the sides; coarsely incised lines. No marked distinction in shape between neck, shoulder, and body. Peleus seizing Thetis: On the left is a blazing altar, with entablature above. On the right is Peleus to right, nude and beardless, armed with a sword, stooping forward and seizing Thetis round the waist. She has long hair, long chiton and himation, arms extended. Behind her, wings indicating one of her metamorphoses. On the right, part of a palmette. --The British Museum 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 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Kámiros, Aegean Islands, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 475 BCE
- Subject
- Peleus Lifts Thetis Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- hydriae
- Date
- -0480/-0470
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00254
- 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: 20.32 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
- 1864,1007.275