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Weighing of Souls

Alternative Title
  • Vase B639
  • Lekythos
Creator Display
  • unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0490/-0480
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured lekythos: the Weighing of Souls. Design black on drab ground, with purple accessories. On the shoulder, lotus-buds; on the body, above, an ivy-wreath. Contest of Achilles and Memnon (or Hector): On either side is a warrior, bearded and fully armed, thrusting with spear, each having a short chiton with purple spots; the one on the left has a Boeotian shield, the other has the device of a crab (?). In the centre Hermes Pyschopompos to right, bearded, with petasos, short chiton and chlamys, both with purple spots, and endromides, holds out a pair of scales in left hand, each scale containing a small winged male figure, representing the souls of the two heroes. In the field, imitation inscriptions. --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
View Date
  • 1985-09
Temporal
  • ca. 490-480 BCE
Coverage
  • Capua, Campania, Italy (discovery)
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Subject
Keyword
  • Psychostasia
  • Iliad Book 16
  • Iliad Book 2-16
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 14.605 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00940
Item Locator
  • Box 2, Section 28
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1873,0820.300
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 06/23/2023
Collections

APA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. (18 Apr 2024). Weighing of Souls Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694845v

MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Weighing of Souls" Oregon Digital. 18 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694845v

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Weighing of Souls" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-18. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df694845v

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