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Hypnos and Thanatos carry Woman

Alternative Title
  • Vase D58
  • Lekythos
Creator Display
  • attributed to Thanatos Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 450-ca. 420 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0435/-0425
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. 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
View
  • Front; Detail
Temporal
  • ca. 435-425 BCE
Coverage
  • Ampelokepoi Tomb, Athens, Periféreia Protevoúsis, Greece (discovery)
  • 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
  • Height: 48.895 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00935
Item Locator
  • Box 2, Section 28
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1876,0328.1
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 06/23/2023
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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