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Thanatos and Hypnos carrying Warrior

Alternative Title
  • Vase D59
  • Lekythos
Creator Display
  • attributed to Sabouroff Painter (Ancient Greek vase painter, active ca. 475-ca. 450 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0470/-0440
Description
  • Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
  • 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
View
  • Front; Detail
Temporal
  • ca. 470-440 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Subject
Keyword
  • Iliad Book 16
  • Iliad Book 2-16
  • Psychostasia
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery
Measurements
  • Diameter: 115 mm Weight: 1064 g Height: 35.56 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00933
Item Locator
  • Box 2, Section 28
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1884,0223.2
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 06/23/2023
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Chicago

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