Attributed To:Related to EDINBURGH P by BEAZLEY Related to EDINBURGH P by HASPELS
Decoration: Body: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING SEATED ON BLOCKS, ATHENA (ALL NAMED), HELMETS ON BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICES, GORGONEIA
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.15
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 480 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 221.4 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.10.5 (PART) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 47, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF BD) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.37B (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Greece. Related to Edinburgh Painter{1}. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Ajax and Achilles playing a board game; with Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the crouching Achilles: Αχιλλ[ε]υς. To right of his upper body:
τετ[τ]αρα φερο. The same in relation to Ajax: δυο φερο. To upper right of
Athena: Αθεναας. To right of Ajax' back: Αιας. Under the foot, Gr.: B in a
circle and Ψ, both modern.
