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Plate with Thetis and dolphins
Manner of: Euthymides
Greek
Archaic Period
about 510–500 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Diameter: 17 cm ( 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number00.335
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Caskey-Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings (MFA), no. 003.
DescriptionWithin the checkered border is a nereid, a daughter of the old man of the sea (Nereus). The scene is apparently occurring under water, for she holds a dolphin in each hand and two other dolphins leap about her. She wears an Ionic dress (chiton), a hair-bag (sakkos) and earrings. The inscription was apparently incised after the firing. It identifies the figure as the sea-nymph (nereid) Thetis, the mother of the hero Achilles. It is scratched in the field, in retrograde "Thetis" (THETES).
Condition: Two holes for suspension. Repaired with slight restorations.
Condition: Two holes for suspension. Repaired with slight restorations.
Inscriptions"Thetis" (THETES)
ΘΕΤΕΣ
ΘΕΤΕΣ
ProvenanceBy 1888: Bruschi Collection, Tarquinia; by 1900: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bruschi Collection); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, February 1900