Achilles and Aias Play
- Title
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Achilles and Aias Play
- Repository
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British Museum
- Alternative
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Kyathos
Vase B466
- Creator
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Haimon Painter
- Photographer
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Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
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manner of Haimon Painter (Attic vase painter, active ca. 460-ca. 435 BCE)
- Description
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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
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Front
- Coverage
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Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation)
Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
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ca. 500 BCE
- Subject
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Aias and Achilles
Exekias and Others
Trojan Myth, Priorto, Iliad
- Style Period
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Black-figure
Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles)
- Work Type
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kyathoi
- Date
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-0505/-0495
- Identifier
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Lowenstam_VRC_00426
- Item Locator
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Box 1, Section 30
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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University of Oregon, Department of Classics
- Local Collection Name
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Steven Lowenstam Collection
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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Height: 16.51 cm Diameter: 12.065 cm
- Material
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pottery | painted; incised
- Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Primary Set
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Lowenstam Collection of Ancient Western Art and Archaeology
- Institution
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University of Oregon
- Cultural Context
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Attic (culture)
- Id Current Repository
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1867,0508.961