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