Achilles and Aias Play
- Title
- Achilles and Aias Play
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Lekythos Old Catalogue 616 Vase B541
- Creator
- Athena Painter
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- attributed to Athena Painter (Greek vase painter, active ca. 500-ca. 475 BCE)
- Description
- Pottery: black-figured lekythos (oil-flask). On the shoulder, palmettes; above the design, network. Two heroes (Achilles and Ajax?) casting lots before the statue of Athene: In the centre is the goddess, on a base of two steps, looking to left, with long hair, high-crested helmet, aegis with snakes in front, long chiton, folds indicated, spear in right hand, left extended. On either side of the base is a hero crouching down on one knee fully armed, with high-crested helmet, ornamented cuirass, that of the one on the right probably of linen, short striped chiton, greaves with incised volutes, and two spears, right hand extended to throw the dice. Behind each is his shield; the one on the left has a tripod as device, the other an ivy-wreath. --The British Museum A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851
- View
- Front
- Coverage
- Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece (creation) Magna Graeca, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- 500-480 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
- -0500/-0480
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_00428
- 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: 31.75 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
- 1836,0224.134
