Amphora with Achilles and Ajax / Two-handled Jar with Achilles and Ajax / Side A, Ajax and Achilles playing draughts / Bilingual, Red-figure and Black-figure, Attic; Creation date: ca. 525 BCE

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Work Title: Amphora with Achilles and Ajax; Two-handled Jar with Achilles and Ajax
View Title: Side A, Ajax and Achilles playing draughts
Creator/Culture: vase painter: red figure by Andokides Painter (Greek, 530-515 BCE); vase painter: black figure by Lysippides Painter (Greek, 530-510 BCE)
Site/Repository: Creation location: from Athens (Attica, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece); Repository: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) ID: 01.8037
Period/Date: Bilingual, Red-figure and Black-figure, Attic; Creation date: ca. 525 BCE
Media/Technique: ceramic
Dimensions: height: 55.5 cm (21.85 inches), diameter: 34 cm (13.39 inches)
Subjects: Red-figure; Greece; Ceramics; Pottery (object genre); Attic (Mainland Greek pottery styles); Athens (Greece); Amphorae; Achilles (Greek mythology); Ajax (Greek mythology); Games
Work Record ID: 214680
Image Record ID: 761545
Digital filename: 06d103601
Classification Filing Number: 431J; LA552; 3AA 3; *.na
Date Added/Updated: 2012-11-25 05:19:52

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Collection: History of Art, VRC Image Bank
Image Size: 1762 x 2713
File Size: 636 KB
Record: 761545
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Full citation: History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collections. Image 761545. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. URL: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hart/x-761545/06d103601. June 07, 2025.