Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Title
Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Dionysus, Leto, Chariklo, Hestia, Demeter, Iris, Peleus The Sophilos Dinos
Creator
Sophilos
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
Sophilos (Greek vase painter, active ca. 580-570 BCE)
Description
Pottery: black-figured dinos (wine-bowl) and stand, incorporating the fragments 1978.6-6.1 and 2, and 1978.6-7.1 to 3. It shows the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, above friezes of real and imaginary animals. Peleus receives the wedding guests at his house; among them Dionysos, Hebe, and the centaur Cheiron. Between the columns of Peleus' house is the artist's signature "Sophilos painted me". The first chariot in the procession carries Zeus and Hera, the second Poseidon and Amphitrite, the third Hermes and Apollo and the fourth Ares and Aphrodite. Between the chariots walk groups of Fates, Graces and Muses, one of whom plays the pipes. Athena and Artemis ride in the last chariot, and are followed by Thetis' grandfather, the fish-tailed sea-god Okeanos, his wife Tethys, and Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth. Hephaistos brings up the rear, seated side-saddle on a mule. --The British Museum H.A.G. Brijder, Siana Cups II, The Heidelberg Painter, 8, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, 1991
View
Side
Coverage
Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Temporal
ca. 580-570 BCE
Subject
Peleus Chases Thetis, Wedding Athens Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Style Period
Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
dinoi
Date
-0580/-0570
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_00220
Item Locator
Box 1, Section 12
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: 71 cm
Material
pottery | painted; incised; wheel-made; slipped
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
1971,1101.1