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1. CERAMICS. Southern Italy. Aeneas’ escape with old-aged Anchises from Troy. Image on the attic vase (lekythos) from Gela. 5th century BCE. Museum of Archaeology. | |
2. TOREUTICS. Shield of Achilles. Silver. By Rundle and Bridge, after a design by Stothard, for George the IV (1820—1830). | |
3. CERAMICS. Greece. Achilles puts on the armour forged by Hephaestus. Peleus the father of Achilles, Achilles, Thetis the mother of Achilles, his son Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) are represented. Black-figure dish. Clay. Inv. No. 507. Athens, National Archaeological Museum. | |
4. CERAMICS. Greece. Achilles bandages Patroklos’ arm. Red-figure kylix. Attic. Attributed to Sosias as Potter by signature; to “Sosias Painter” by Beazley / “Berlin Painter” by Robertson as painter. Clay. Ca. 500 BCE. Inv. No. F 2278. Berlin, State Museums, Old Museum. | |
5. CERAMICS. Greece. Hypnos and Thanatos carry the corpse of Sarpedon at the presence of Hermes. Red-figure calyx-krater (side A). Attic. Signed by Euxitheos as potter and by Euphronios as painter. Terracotta. Ca. 515—510 BCE. Inv. Nos. ex 1972.11.10 / ex L.2006.10. Cerveteri, Cerite National Museum “Claudia Ruspoli”. | |
6. CERAMICS. Greece. Red figure crater with stand. Body, side A. 350 BCE. Scene of the fall of Troy. Ferrara, National Archaeological Museum. | |
7. SCULPTURE. Etruria. Front relief of an etruscan cinerary urn “Menelaus and Meriones lifting Patroclus’ corpse on a cart”. Alabaster. Volterra, 2nd cent. BCE. Florence, National Archaeological Museum. | |
8. CERAMICS. Greece. François vase. Black-figured volute krater. Attic. Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE. Inv. No. 4209. Florence, National Archaeological Museum. | |
9. CERAMICS. Greece. François vase. Black-figured volute krater. Attic. Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE. Inv. No. 4209. Florence, National Archaeological Museum. | |
10. CERAMICS. Greece. François vase. Black-figured volute krater. Attic. Ca. mid-6th cent. BCE. Inv. No. 4209. Florence, National Archaeological Museum. | |
11. SCULPTURE. Rome. Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase. Neo-attic work. Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. BCE. Inv. No. 307. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. | |
12. SCULPTURE. Rome. Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase. Neo-attic work. Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. BCE. Inv. No. 307. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. | |
13. SCULPTURE. Rome. Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase (close-up). Neo-attic work. Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. BCE. Inv. No. 307. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. | |
14. SCULPTURE. Rome. Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase. Neo-attic work. Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. BCE. Inv. No. 307. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. | |
15. SCULPTURE. Rome. Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase. Neo-attic work. Pentelic marble. Second half of the 1st cent. BCE. Inv. No. 307. Florence, Uffizi Gallery. | |
16. CERAMICS. Southern Italy. Slaughter of Iphigenia. Red-figured volute krater. Apulia. Ca. 370—350 BCE. Attributed to a painter close to the Iliupersis Painter (the sack of Troy). Inv. No. 1865,0103.21. London, British Museum. | |
17. CERAMICS. Greece. Achilles and Ajax playing a board game. (Achilles on the left; Ajax on the right, between them stands Athena.) Black-figure neck-amphora. Attic. Attributed to the Leagros Group Painter. Clay. Ca. 510 BCE. Inv. No. 86.AE.81. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
18. CERAMICS. Greece. Tekmessa covering the corpse of Ajax. Red-figured kylix (type B). Attic. Attributed to Brygos Painter (active about 490—470 BCE). Terracotta. 490—480 BCE. Inv. No. 86.AE.286. Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. | |
19. CERAMICS. Greece. Achilles killing Penthesilea. Red-figure kylix. Attic. Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter. Clay. Early Classical period, ca. 470—460 BCE. Inv. Nos. 2688 / J 370. Munich, State Antique Collection. | |
20. CERAMICS. Greece. Achilles killing Penthesilea. Red-figure kylix. Attic. Attributed to “Penthesilea Painter”. Clay. Early Classical period, ca. 470—460 BCE. Inv. Nos. 2688 / J 370. Munich, State Antique Collection. | |