Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Woman
- Title
- Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Woman
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Vase D58
- Creator
- Thanatos Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Thanatos Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-ca. 420 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: White-ground lekythos. Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) (?) bringing dead warrior to tomb. The tomb is in the form of a plain stele on a double plinth, decorated with numerous taeniae, and surmounted by a double projecting moulding. About one quarter of the way down from the top is a band of egg pattern, above which is painted a helmet with long hanging crest to right, the eye-holes filled in with red. The body of the warrior is about to be laid, with feet to left, on the upper plinth it has a cuirass, and a mantle is rolled up over the arms; the head, which is beardless, is held by a youthful winged figure (Hypnos), who places his hand under the warrior's arms, resting the head against his breast. A bearded winged figure (Thanatos) bends forward, supporting with his left the thighs, with his right the lower part of the legs; the beard of this figure is shaggy and the hair straight; on his body are markings in red, as if of plumage. Drawing of good period. Brown outline throughout, except wings, which are in black outline; hair in black or brown strokes on brown wash; body of Hypnos, thinned red wash; taeniae and mantle of warrior red with black folds. Eye in profile. Usual patterns. --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) Ampelokepoi Tomb, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 435-425 BCE
- Subject
- Iliad Book 16 Iliad Book 2-16 Pychostasia, Hypnos and Thanatos
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0435/-0425
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00934
- 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: 48.895 cm
- Material
- pottery
- 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
- 1876,0328.1