Decoration: A,B: ACHILLES AND AJAX PLAYING BETWEEN WARRIORS AND ONLOOKERS, BIRDS, SHIELD DEVICES, SNAKE, CHARIOT BOX, TRIPOD
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: A343
Previous Collections:
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 17811
Publication Record: Albizzati, C., Vasi antichi dipinti del Vaticano (Rome, 1925-39): 343, PL.38 (A, B) Cahn, H.A. and Simon, E. (eds.), Tainia, Festschrift für Roland Hampe (Mainz, 1980): PL.34.1-3 Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 103 (1988) 191, FIGS.17-18 (A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.97, ACHILLEUS 398A, B (A, B) 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.43B-C (A, B) Revue du MAUSS: 2015 (2) 46, 89, FIG.4 (PART OF A) Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIGS.330-31 (A, B) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): 246, FIGS.330-31 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF STEMLESS CUP WITH MERRYTHOUGHT HANDLES. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: A: AJAX AND ACHILLES, SEATED, PLAYING A BOARD GAME (ONE HOLDS A PIECE); TWO
BIRDS FACING; AT LEFT, YOUTH, MAN, AND WARRIOR; AT RIGHT, WARRIOR, MAN, YOUTH.
B: SIMILAR, EXCEPT THE HEROES ARE CROUCHING{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A, B. EACH: MANY NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THESE ARE DIFFERENT HEROES; THEY ARE SHAKING HANDS (FRONING).
CAVI Number: 6978
AVI Bibliography: MUSETRGREG (1842), II, PL. 72,2. — ALBIZZATI (1929), 123-24, PLS. 37-38. —
SCHEFOLD (1978), 246, FIGS. 330-31 [SIC? 30-31?]. — H. MOMMSEN (1980), PL.
34,1-3. — LIMC I (1981), PL. 97, ACHILLEUS 287A, B. — FRONING (1988), 190 AND
191, FIGS. 17-18.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
