Fragment of grave building with Achilleus and Hector
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Athenian red-figure volute krater: combat of Achilles and Hector

Attic black-figure amphora: Achilles dragging Hector's body

Classification
neck amphora; black-figure pottery
Culture
Greek (culture)
Dimensions
Height: 45 cm, Diameter: 29 cm
Date
520–500 BC
Period
Archaic Period (700–480)
Material
clay
Artist
Leagros Group
Iconography
Hector; quadriga; charioteer; tomb; Achilles; Hermes; Athena; Aphrodite; Corinthian helmet; spear; palmette/palmette frieze; aigis (Greek-Roman); herald's staff (kerykeion/caduceus)
Production place
Athens
Findspot
Vulci
Present location
London, British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome
Inventory
1842,0314.2
ID
Per-6746
References
Walters, CVA Great Britain 5, III.H.e. 7, no. 239, pls. 58.3a–b

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

Trails
THE TROJAN EPIC CYCLE; The Iliad
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