Achilles and Aias Play
- Title
- Achilles and Aias Play
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Kyathos Vase B466
- Creator
- Haimon Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- manner of Haimon Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 460-ca. 435 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured kyathos (dipper). Coarse style. On the top of the handle is a knob. In the centre, Ajax and Achilles (or other warriors) playing with pessi (dice); they are kneeling on opposite sides of a table, on which are visible six pessi, to which they put out their hands. Both have high-crested helmets and spears, and are wrapped in himatia; in the background is a palm-tree. Behind each warrior is a female figure looking on, with long hair, fillet, long chiton, and embroidered himation; the one on the right extends her arms to the warrior. On the left is a bearded figure seated to left, looking back, in long chiton and himation, both embroidered, right hand raised. A female figure (the head obliterated) advances towards him, in long chiton and embroidered himation, holding out a wreath. On the right is a bearded figure seated to right, looking back, in long chiton and embroidered himation, with left hand raised, holding a keras (?). Before him is a male figure departing, wrapped in an embroidered himation, looking back. --The British Museum Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 500 BCE
- Subject
- Aias Achilleus Black Figure Pottery III
- Style Period
- Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
- kyathoi
- Date
- -0505/-0495
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_05521
- Item Locator
- Box 12, Section 18
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
- Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- Height: 16.51 cm Diameter: 12.065 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted; incised
- Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
- Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
- Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
- 1867,0508.961
