White-balanced drawing of the marriage of peleus and thetis - plate 111, from: monumenti antichi inediti, johann joachim winckelmann, 1767 (roma: a spese dell'autore)
this version of the image has been cropped to include only the procession of deities, resized for deeper dpi, and white-balanced. The following description comes from an english translation of "winckelmann's images from the ancient world: greek, roman, etruscan and egyptian by johann joachim winckelmann":
"plate 111: sarcophagus in the villa albani: the wedding of peleus and thetis (they are at the far right); the gods bearing gifts are (right to left) vulcan (sword and shield), pallas, the four horae, hymenaeus, hesperus, and themis; in separate engravings, below, are neptune and an amorino on a dolphin. "
the "very well-known" sarcophagus is considered a late work (third century a. D. ? even later?) and has been called "one last version" of the subject. The sarcophagus is preserved in villa albani (rome), as stated by winckelmann. According to more recent scholars, it was created around 120–130 ad, i. E. During the reign of emperor hadrian. The subject is being discussed: in 1972, bernard andreae still considered it a representation of the marriage of peleus and thetis, the one and only of its kind. In 2004, paul zanker explained the relief as achilles receiving his weapons from hephaistos/vulcanus and further gifts from the seasons. The veiled woman sitting behind achilles would be his mother, the sea goddess thetis. Her sad expression is caused by her knowledge about her son's early death in the troian war. The sea monsters on the sarcophagus lid refer to thetis being a sea goddess. Wolfgang helbig, führer durch die öffentlichen sammlungen klassischer altertümer in rom, 4th edition, vol. 4 (1972) pp. 261–263 no. 3291 (text by bernard andreae). Paul zanker and björn christian ewald, mit mythen leben. Die bilderwelt der römischen sarkophage (2004) p. 248 fig. 220. Date: 1767 (drawing) – ca. 120–130 AD (object).
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