Taking Away Briseis
- Title
- Taking Away Briseis
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Sheath Bronze 883
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Ancient Roman (artist)
- Description
- Fragment of a bronze scabbard: Achilles and Briseis. The lower of the two scenes on the fragment shows Briseis led away between two heralds. The subject of the upper scene is uncertain, but it may represent Patroklos asking Achilles to lend him his armour. --The British Museum Walters, H B, Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan., I-II, London, BMP, 1899
- View
- Front
- Temporal
- 4th century CE
- Subject
- Book 1 Iliad Book 2-16
- Style Period
- Imperial (Roman)
- Work Type
- sheaths (cases)
- Date
- 0300/0400
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00471
- Item Locator
- Box 2, Section 2
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Length: 22.86 cm
- Material
- bronze
- 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
- Roman (ancient Italian culture or period)
- Id Current Repository
- 1772,0303.12