Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Warrior
- Title
- Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Warrior
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Vase D59
- Creator
- Sabouroff Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Sabouroff Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 475-ca. 450 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil or perfume flask). Hypnos and Thanatos, personifications of Sleep and Death, carrying the body of a warrior (perhaps Sarpedon?). The tomb is indicated by a plain stele, around which two taeniae are tied (now faded), resting on a triple plinth. On left Thanatos, winged and distinguished by his rough hair and beard, in a short chiton, bends forward holding with both arms the thighs of the dead person, whose body is supported on the right by Hypnos, with both hands under its shoulders. Hypnos is a youthful winged figure, with long straight hair falling to his shoulders, wearing short chiton which has a broad border at the upper and lower edges; he looks at Thanatos. The warrior, a youthful figure with wavy hair falling to his shoulder wears a cuirass decorated around the waist with a band of egg pattern. Drawing of good period, partly faded. Design in thinned black outline; hair dark red (faded). Chiton of Thanatos, and borders of chiton of Hypnos, and taeniae vermilion; pattern of cuirass yellow. Eye in profile. Above, maeander; on shoulder, pattern of three palmettes, brown on white. --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)
- Temporal
- ca. 470-440 BCE
- Subject
- Iliad Book 16 Ilian Book 2-16 Pychostasia, Hypnos and Thanatos
- Style Period
- White-ground Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- lekythoi
- Date
- -0470/-0440
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00936
- 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
- Diameter: 115 mm Weight: 1064 g Height: 35.56 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
- 1884,0223.2