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Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

Alternative Title
  • The Sophilos Dinos
Creator Display
  • Sophilos (Greek vase painter, active ca. 580-570 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0580/-0570
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured dinos (wine-bowl) and stand, incorporating the fragments 1978.6-6.1 and 2, and 1978.6-7.1 to 3. It shows the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, above friezes of real and imaginary animals. Peleus receives the wedding guests at his house; among them Dionysos, Hebe, and the centaur Cheiron. Between the columns of Peleus' house is the artist's signature "Sophilos painted me". The first chariot in the procession carries Zeus and Hera, the second Poseidon and Amphitrite, the third Hermes and Apollo and the fourth Ares and Aphrodite. Between the chariots walk groups of Fates, Graces and Muses, one of whom plays the pipes. Athena and Artemis ride in the last chariot, and are followed by Thetis' grandfather, the fish-tailed sea-god Okeanos, his wife Tethys, and Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth. Hephaistos brings up the rear, seated side-saddle on a mule. --The British Museum
  • H.A.G. Brijder, Siana Cups II, The Heidelberg Painter, 8, Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum, 1991
View
  • Side
View Date
  • 1990-09
Temporal
  • ca. 580-570 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Keyword
  • Peleus and Thetis Wed
  • Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised; wheel-made; slipped
Measurements
  • Height: 71 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00203
Item Locator
  • Box 1, Section 11
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1971,1101.1
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
Collections

APA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. (16 Apr 2024). Wedding of Peleus and Thetis Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df693z75j

MLA

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Wedding of Peleus and Thetis" Oregon Digital. 16 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df693z75j

Chicago

Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology, University of Oregon. "Wedding of Peleus and Thetis" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-16. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df693z75j

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