N13.1 HYPNOS
Museum Collection | The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu |
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Catalogue No. | Malibu 86.AE.680 |
Beazley Archive No. | N/A |
Ware | Apulian Red Figure |
Shape | Loutrophoros |
Painter | Attributed to the Painter of Louvre MNB 1148 |
Date | ca. 350 - 340 B.C. |
Period | Late Classical |
DESCRIPTION
Detail of Hypnos from a painting depicting the tale of Leda and the Swan.
Hypnos, the god of sleep, is depicted as a naked, long-haired youth with winged boots and a winged brow holding a (yew?) branch. In myth his wand dripped with the somnolent waters of the river Lethe.