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)
