neck-amphora
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.136
- Description
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Pottery: black-figure neck-amphora.
(a) Ajax and Cassandra: On the left is Ajax (son of Oileus) facing right, bearded and fully armed, with spear in right hand, and chlamys on left arm. He stretches out left hand to seize Cassandra, who flees to the right, seeking the aid of Athene. Cassandra wears a fillet, and a himation thrown across her body, and looks back at Ajax. Athene stands on the right, facing left, in attitude as on the Panathenaic vases, with long tresses and high-crested helmet with fillet, aegis, long embroidered chiton, spear, and shield with device of a bearded snake to left.
(b) Dionysos to right, with long beard and tresses, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation with purple spots, in right hand a vine-branch, in left a cantharos. On either side of him is a Satyr with long hair, dancing and looking back at him.
- Production date
- 540BC-480BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Overbeck, Her. Bildw., p. 638; Heydemann, Iliupersis, p. 29, note 4e; Schneider, Tro. i; Sagenkr. p. 176, n. 1.
For side A, cf. Gerhard, Arch. Zeit. 184.8, Nos. 14 and 15; BM Vase Β379; Berlin Cat. 1698; Klein, Ann. dell’ Inst. 1877, p. 246; J.H.S. v. p. 234.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Much restored.
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.136
