Suicide of Ajax
- Title
- Suicide of Ajax
- Repository
- British Museum
- Alternative
- Calyx-krater Vase F480
- Creator
- unknown
- Photographer
- Lowenstam, Steven
- Creator Display
- unknown Etruscan (vase painter)
- Description
- Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; Etruscan style. Below the designs, palmettos. (a) Suicide of Ajax (Aivas): Ajax, nude and bearded, wearing a wreath, is fallen on his knees to left over his sword, which comes out through his body by his left shoulder; blood is visible round the wound and the handle of the sword. On the left is his shield; above, a garment with border of dots suspended on two pegs. On the right are a large sheath suspended by a white band, a tree-stump, and a garment suspended on two pegs. The scene takes place in Ajax's tent; the ground is indicated below. Above Ajax is painted a retrograde inscription in white. (b) Actaeon devoured by his hounds: Actaeon is nude and bearded, with wreath and white endromides; he moves away to right, turning back and endeavouring to drive back the hounds with a crook held in right hand; two attack him on either side, and one seizes his right thigh in his teeth. Below him is inscribed as before, in Etruscan characters: NVIATA, ‘Α(κ)ταίων. --The British Museum
- View
- Front; Detail
- Coverage
- Etruria, Italy (creation) Vulci, Lazio, Italy (discovery)
- Temporal
- ca. 400-350 BCE
- Subject
- Myth between Iliad and Odyssey Suicide of Aias
- Style Period
- Red-figure Etruscan (culture or style)
- Work Type
- calyx kraters
- Date
- -0400/-0350
- Identifier
- Lowenstam_VRC_01640
- Item Locator
- Box 4, Section 13
- 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: 39.37 cm
- Material
- pottery | painted
- 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
- Etruscan (culture or style)
- Id Current Repository
- 1867,0508.1328