Attic black-figure amphora: Achilles and Ajax playing with pessi

Classification

black-figure pottery ; amphora

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 46.7 cm

Date

ca. 530 B.C.

Period

Archaic Period (700–480)

Material

clay

Artist

Lysippides Painter

Iconography

Achilles ; Aias ; game ; warrior, soldier ; spear ; Corinthian helmet ; rays pattern ; Greek key ; lotus pattern ; shield, Boeotian

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Athens

Findspot

Clusium (Chiusi)

Present location

London, British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome

Inventory

1851,0806.15

ID

Per-6690

References

Walters, CVA Great Britain 4, III.H.e. 4, no. B 211, pl. 49.3a–c

See the object on the website of the British Museum and the Beazley Archive.

Trails

THE TROJAN EPIC CYCLE ; Ten years of war

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