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Source Description
The relief shows Achilles in his tent sulking, and refusing to fight the Trojans until the injustice done to him by Agamemnon is rectified ("Iliad" I). Achilles is on a couch or chair holding drapery up over his head. The leg of the furniture is in the form of a lion's foot. His sheathed sword hangs from his left hand, his helmet and cuirass are on the ground beside him, and his shield leans against a column at the far left.A raised border with grooves and hatching frames the relief. Holes for attaching it to a box pierce the frame. Typologically this plaque is related to Walters 71.29.
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Document identity
localId
15494
label
Achilles
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
2
Source metadata
id
15494
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Achilles
description
The relief shows Achilles in his tent sulking, and refusing to fight the Trojans until the injustice done to him by Agamemnon is rectified ("Iliad" I). Achilles is on a couch or chair holding drapery up over his head. The leg of the furniture is in the form of a lion's foot. His sheathed sword hangs from his left hand, his helmet and cuirass are on the ground beside him, and his shield leans against a column at the far left.A raised border with grooves and hatching frames the relief. Holes for attaching it to a box pierce the frame. Typologically this plaque is related to Walters 71.29.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1926, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
4th century
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Ivory & Bone
plaques (flat objects)
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
7.2
height
4.9
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 13/16 x W: 1 15/16 in. (7.2 x 4.9 cm)
Source extras
cul
Late Antique
med
bone
creator_ids
6191
collection_ids
ROM
exhibition_ids
358
Page inventory
seq
1
type
photo
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ce4187fbb263233f
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no
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no
seq
2
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photo
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d357a34ba94c35d9
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no
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no