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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