THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Achilles
41. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with clipeus portrait (imago clipeata) of the deceased.
White marble. Second half of the 3rd century CE.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Baths of Diocletian.
42. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Etruria.
Sacrificing Achilles.
4th century BCE.
From Vulci, François Tomb.
Rome, Torlonia Museum.
43. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Etruria.
Sacrifice of the Trojan captives.
2nd—1st centuries BCE.
From Vulci, François Tomb.
Rome, Torlonia Museum.
44. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left; Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 530—520 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
45. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left, Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 530—520 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
46. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left, Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 540—530 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
47. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy (the lid not belonging to the sarcophagus).
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. Nos. 932 (lid) / 933 (sarcophagus).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 27, 28.
48. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy.
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. Nos. 932 (lid) / 933 (sarcophagus).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 27, 28.
49. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a relief “Amazonomachy”.
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. No. 933.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 28.
50. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy.
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. No. 933.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 28.
51. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a relief “Amazonomachy”.
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. No. 933.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 28.
52. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy. Detail: Achilles and Penthesilea.
Marble.
Ca. 230—250 CE.
Inv. No. 933.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Nord portico, 28.
53. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Priam and Achilles.
Sardonyx.
Roman. 1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Workshop of Dioskourides.
Inv. No. Ж 26.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
54. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Priam and Achilles.
Sardonyx.
1st century BCE — 1st century CE.
Inv. No. Ж 26.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
55. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Odysseus in the Underworld.
Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1806—1890).
Wall panel, 1845—1848.
No. LVII.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, The Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting, 57.
56. CERAMICS. Greece.
Ajax carrying the body of Achilles flanked by Scythian archers.
Black-figured neck-amphora. Attic.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Sotheby’s Auction House, New York.
57. SCULPTURE. Greece.
A fragment of front panel of a sarcophagus with a scene of ransoming of Hector’s body.
Marble. Late 2nd—early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. 322 / 323.
Sparta, Archaeological Museum.
58. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
So-called stair slab (lastrone a scala) with relief frieze.
Nenfro.
580—570 BCE.
Inv. No. 70814.
Tarquinia, National Archaeological Museum.
59. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Etruria.
Achilles in ambush.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Tarquinia, Tomb of the Bulls.