Amphora with Departure Scene and Quadriga

ca. 520-510 BCE (Archaic)

20.5 cm 32.3 cm

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This vase may portray the common departure scene of two warriors in full armor leaving home for war, or it may represent a famous scene from "The Iliad" in which Priam, king of Troy, comes to claim and pay ransom for the body of his son Hector. Achilles, who killed Hector in s...

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10431
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, no. 231; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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