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
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
