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Achilles ambushed Troilos

Alternative Title
  • Old Catalogue 469
  • Vase B325
  • Hydria
Creator Display
  • attributed to Leagros Group (Ancient Greek vase painters, active ca. 525 to 500 BCE)
Creator
Photographer
Date
  • -0510/-0500
Description
  • Pottery: black-figured hydria. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides and palmettes along the bottom; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Troilos and Polyxena surprised by Achilles: On the right is a fountain represented by a Doric column with white abacus, and a panther's head seen from the front, from which water is pouring over Polyxena's hydria. On the right behind the column is Achilles crouching down to left, with tall visored helmet, short chiton, sword, spear, and Boeotian shield on which is a pellet. On the other side of the fountain is Polyxena to left, with long hair, fillet, long embroidered chiton, left hand raised; behind her are branches. On the left is Troilos approaching on horseback, beardless, with embroidered chlamys and two spears; a second horse by his side. Behind him is a nude youth to right, with a fillet and two spears, left hand raised. 2. On the body: Combat of warriors: In the centre two warriors thrusting at each other with spears; they are bearded and fully armed, with embroidered chitons, but the one on the left has no cuirass; the other has a bird flying to left as device on his shield. Between them is a fallen warrior to left, with eyes closed; he is fully armed and has long tresses; on shield device of an ivy-wreath. Behind each of the two centre combatants is a fully armed warrior, with long tresses, also thrusting with spear; the one on the left has two pellets on shield, the other, an uncertain device; the latter also has parameridia. --The British Museum
  • Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
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  • Top
Temporal
  • 510-500 BCE
Coverage
  • Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
  • Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
Inscription
  • LEAΛPOΣ, Λέαγρος
Keyword
  • Ambush of Troilos
  • Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Work Type
Cultural Context
Style / Period
Material
  • pottery | painted; incised
Measurements
  • Height: 48.26 cm
Rights Holder
  • University of Oregon, Department of Classics
Identifier
  • Lowenstam_VRC_00372
Item Locator
  • Box 1, Section 22
Repository
Current Repository ID
  • 1837,0609.60
Local Collection Name
Institution
Submission Date
  • 08/03/2015
Modified
  • 07/25/2022
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