Obverse, Thanatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) with the body of Sarpedon Reverse, Eos (Dawn) with the body of her son, Memnon
The scenes on this jar show two great heroes of the Trojan War being lifted from the battlefield after their deaths. Sarpedon, a son of the god Zeus, will be carried to Lycia, his homeland in southern Asia Minor, and Memnon, to his kingdom in Ethiopia.
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Title:Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Artist:Attributed to the Diosphos Painter
Period:Archaic
Date:ca. 500 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; black-figure
Dimensions:H. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm) diameter of mouth 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm) diameter of foot 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Fletcher Fund, 1956
Object Number:56.171.25
Inscription: Nonsense inscriptions on obverse
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1957. "Greek Vases from the Hearst Collection." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15(7): pp. 166, 172.
Beazley, John D. 1971. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. p. 248, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Moret, J.-M. 1984. Œdipe, la Sphinx et les thébains: essai de mythologie iconographique, Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 23, 2 vols. p. 23, n. 7, Rome: Institut suisse de Rome.
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