Achilles greek ceramics.
31 cm 12 2in width.
Exekias amphora achilles and ajax engaged in a game was created in c 530 bc by ancient greek pottery in archaic style.
Greek pottery was invariably made on the potter s wheel and usually made in separate horizontal sections.
The heroes are achilles on the left and ajax on the right two of the great greek heroes featured in homer s iliad and exekias the potter who signed only two pots as the potter and the painter has identified these two figures by including their names above them but he s also telling us what s happening between the two.
Made in greece handmade hand painted dimensions approximately.
1 9 kgr 4 2 lb.
Clay genuine ceramic.
Amphora achilles slaying penthesilea ancient greek vase pottery museum copy 530 bc made in greece handmade hand painted dimensions approximately.
Ancient greek pottery due to its relative durability comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient greece and since there is so much of it over 100 000 painted vases are recorded in the corpus vasorum antiquorum it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of greek society the shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium bc are.
In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.
In greek mythology achilles ə ˈ k ɪ l iː z ə kil eez or achilleus ancient greek.
The foot the lower and upper body the neck and finally the handles if necessary.
Who were achilles parents.
Zeus the king of the gods and poseidon god of the sea had both fallen in love with thetis and were rivals for her hand in marriage.
Achilles was the son of peleus a greek king and thetis a sea nymph or goddess.
Our vase is a copy in smaller scale of the famous ancient greek black figured pottery amphora known as achilles and penthesilea which is exhibited in the british museum in london.
Greek pottery developed from a mycenaean tradition borrowing both pot forms and decoration.
These sections were then joined together with a clay slip after drying and it is possible in many cases to see the prints of the potter impressed on the inside of the vessel.
6629 museo archeologico di lecce achille vaso attico foto di giovanni dall orto 10 ott 2015 jpg 3 648 5 472.
20 5 cm 8 07in net weight.