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Aias carrying Achilles

Alternative Title
  • Neck-amphora
  • Vase B279
  • Old Catalogue 503
Creator Display
  • unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0490/-0480
Description
  • A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
  • Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. Rather coarse style. On the neck, (a) double honeysuckle, and (b) chain of palmettes. (a) Ajax carrying off Achilles' body: Ajax to left, fully armed, with Boeotian shield, on which are two snakes as device, with rosette between for the boss, is carrying the body of Achilles on his shoulder, bending down beneath its weight. Achilles is armed as Ajax; on his Boeotian shield is the device of a bull's head. Before them is Thetis (?) retreating to left, with long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, looking back and beckoning to Ajax with left hand. (b) Dionysos seated on an okladias to right, looking back at a Maenad, who retreats to left, looking back. She has long hair with sphendonè, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in left hand a crotalon (castanet). Dionysos has a long beard, ivy-wreath, long white chiton and embroidered himation, in left hand a keras, in right vine-branches with grapes. --The British Museum
View
  • Front
Temporal
  • ca. 490-480 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Keyword
  • Aias carries Achilleus
  • Myth between Iliad and Odyssey
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 26.67 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_01597
Item Locator
  • Box 4, Section 6
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1836,0224.135
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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