Amphora with Ajax Carrying the Dead Achilles

530-520 BCE (Archaic)

27.9 cm 38.1 cm

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The death of Achilles, which occurred after the events recounted in "The Iliad," was described in another epic poem called "The Aethiopis", which has not survived. On the front of this amphora, the dead Achilles is carried from the Trojan battlefield by his comrade, Ajax. In f...

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18168
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, before 1897 [no. 183]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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