Achilles and Ajax Playing

Title
Achilles and Ajax Playing
Repository
British Museum
Alternative
Lekythos Vase B638
Creator
unknown
Photographer
Lowenstam, Steven
Creator Display
unknown Ancient Greek (vase painter)
Description
Pottery: black-figured lekythos. Designs: on shoulder, black on red, with purple and white accessories; on body, black on drab, with purple accessories. 1. On the shoulder: A Satyr on all-fours to right, with face to front, pursuing a Maenad, who runs away, looking back at him; she has a long chiton with diploidion, and hair knotted up. In the field, vine-branches, with grapes. 2. On the body: Heroes casting lots at the statue of Athene: In the centre is the statue of Athene to right looking to left, with long hair, high-crested helmet with fillet, long chiton and striped himation, spear in right hand, left raised. Behind her is a table, on either side of which is a bearded warrior crouching down on one knee; the one on the left has a helmet with fillet, short striped chiton, chlamys, greaves, shield and two spears; his right hand is stretched out to the table. The other has long hair with fillet, greaves, Boeotian shield, and spear. --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
Temporal
ca. 500 BCE
Subject
Aias and Achilles Exekias and Others Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
Style Period
Black-figure Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
Work Type
lekythoi
Date
-0505/-0495
Identifier
Lowenstam_VRC_00425
Item Locator
Box 1, Section 30
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: 21.59 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
1867,0508.943