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Amphora
Exekias540-530 BCE
Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States
Details
- Title: Amphora
- Creator: Exekias
- Date Created: 540-530 BCE
- Location Created: Orvieto, Etruria, Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 58.4 x 38.1 cm
- External Link: Penn Museum online collection
- Medium: Ceramic
- Object Number: MS3442
- Manufacture Location/Mint: Athens, Attica
- Descriptive Note: Amphora, type A. Side A: Ajax with the body of Achilles. Left, Menelaos (labeled), holding a round shield (device: dog with a haunch of a hoofed animal), has pushed his spear into the chest of a naked Aithiopian (labeled Amasos) who holds a club and a pelta (wicker shield). At right, Ajax bends to lift the dead body of Achilles (name partially preserved). B: Death of Antilochos. Antilochos (labeled) lies slain in center. Three warriors run to left: two helmeted warriors with round shields (device of one shield: crow) and spears and a bearded man in a flapped hat. They chase two naked men, one carrying a pelta, away from the body of Antilochos Palmette lotus chain above panels. With Greek dipinto inscriptions. The foot is not preserved, restored in plaster.
- Culture: Greek, Etruscan
- Credit Line: Purchased from Riccardo Mancini; Subscription of John Wanamaker, 1898
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