File:DeathOfAchilles Rumpf ChalkidischeVasen colorized in the manner of the inscriptions painter.png

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English: Ajax (Aias) fights Glaukos over the dead body of Achilles, while Paris and Aeneas look on. Helping Ajax is Athena with a snaky aegis. A Chalcidian Amphora from 540-530 BCE, formerly in the Pembroke-Hope Collection in Deepdene, England, now lost. Drawing is based on A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (Berlin/Leipzig 1927), pl. 12.

The source of the original image is a drawing based on a lost Greek Vase from 540 BCE. A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (Berlin/Leipzig 1927), pl. 12 The vase was formerly in the Pembroke-Hope collection in Deepdene, England. See LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae) “Achilleus” no. 850. See Kemp-Lindemann 220. (J. D.BEAZLEY ATTESTED LONG AGO THAT ONCE THIS AMPHORA WAS PEMBROKE, BUT NEVER HOPE!! -- M. Iozzo).

The original image of the black and white drawing was uploaded and released to the public domain to by user Kenmayer on 9 Nov 2015.

This version of the image has been digitally resized and fully colorized by Kathleen Vail (user:AishaAbdel) in an attempt to recreate the colors used by the Inscriptions Painter as faithfully as possible.
Date circa 540 BCE
Source File:DeathOfAchilles_Rumpf_ChalkidischeVasen.jpg
Author Inscription Painter

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