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Efthymia Mintsi, « Hypnos et Thanatos sur les vases attiques (520-470 av. J.-C.) », Histoire de l'art, ID : 10.3406/hista.1991.2466
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Hypnos and Thanatos on Attic vases (520 to 470 B.C). Sleep and Death carrying the body of a dead hero are represented on ten Attic vases ; four, dating from 520 to 500 B.C. are red-figure vases, six others, from 500 to 470 B.C. are black-figure vases. At a later date, these spirits appear only on lecythi with a white background, bearing the body of a common mortal. The study of various secondary iconographical elements enables us to identify the moment and the place of the scene depicted. The identity of the dead hero is variable : in three cases, first of all, it is Sarpedon, and on four other vases it is Memnon.