- Museum number
- 1842,0314.2
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora.
(a) Hector's body dragged by Achilles round the tomb of Patroclos: Achilles' quadriga is driven at full speed to right by his charioteer, Automedon, who is bearded, with fillet, and long white chiton with shoulder-belt and girdle, goad in right hand, reins in both. The nude body of Hector, who is bearded, is trailed face upwards behind the chariot, to which his legs are fastened. By the further side runs Achilles to right, looking back, bearded, with lofty visored helmet, cuirass, greaves, two spears, and shield with device of a tripod. His body appears, by an error of drawing, with upper part behind, and legs in front of, a mound-shaped tumulus, which represents the tomb of Patroclos; at its base is a snake to right, and in the field on the right is a tree.
(b) Hermes leading goddesses to Paris: On the left is Hermes to right, bearded, with short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos, endromides, wand in right hand; left hand raised to petasos as if saluting Athene, who stands to right looking back at him. She has long tresses, with curls in front, high-crested helmet, aegis, long embroidered chiton with girdle, spear in right hand, left hand raised. On the right is Aphrodite looking back, with long tresses, fillet with ends hanging down, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in right hand a branch, left hand extended.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 290 millimetres
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Height: 44.45 centimetres
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Height: 450 millimetres
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Weight: 4 kilograms (approx)
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Overbeck, Her. Bildw., p. 456; Schneider, Tro. Sagenkr., p. 27; Luckenbach, Jahrbuch für Philologie, Suppl.-Band xi. p. 500.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
Exhibited:
2009 2 Apr-13 Oct, Alicante, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010 30 Apr-30 Aug, Seoul, National Museum of Korea, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011 15 Oct-07 Feb, Taipei, The National Palace Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2010-2011, 11 Mar-12 Jun, Kobe City Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011, 4 July-25 Sept, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2011-2012, 25 Oct-12 Feb, Mexico City, National Anthropological Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2012-2013 6 Oct-6 Jan, Portland Art Museum, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2013, 6 May–6 Oct, Dallas Museum of Art, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 21 Feb-9 Jun, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greek Art and Thought
2014, 2 Aug–9 Nov, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia, The Body Beautiful in Greek Art and Thought
2015, 26 Mar-5 Jul, The British Museum, Defining Beauty: the body in ancient Greek art
2019-2020 21 Nov-8 Mar, London, BM, SEG, Troy
2021 21 Sep-12 Dec, Reading, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, Troy Spotlight Loan
2022 10 Feb-8 May, Haslemere Educational Museum, Troy Spotlight Loan
2022 19 May-14 Aug, Dundee, The McManus, Troy Spotlight Loan
- Acquisition date
- 1842
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1842,0314.2
