From Iliad XI – Patroklos’ Death.
Six warriors arranged in two groups are fighting on the body of a fallen hero. Similar scenes with groups of armed warriors engaging with each other are quite common in Greek vases painting. Often the scene depicted cannot be identified, but that is not the case here, because the decoration of this calix krater is the close replica of an Exekias original artwork exhibited at the Agora Museum in Athens, collection number AP1044 . Three inscriptions on the krater signed by Exekias - Διομεδες retr., Hεγτορ retr., and Π̣ατ̣ρ̣οκλος - help to identify this scene as the fight on the body of Patroklos.
In the lower band, below the fight, two lions attack a bull.
CARC / CAVI www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black figure calyx krater
In the manner of Exekias by Verdheles
Archaic Period
Ca. 550 BC
From Pharsalos, Thessaly
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, NM 26746
From Iliad XI – Patroklos’ Death.
Six warriors arranged in two groups are fighting on the body of a fallen hero. Similar scenes with groups of armed warriors engaging with each other are quite common in Greek vases painting. Often the scene depicted cannot be identified, but that is not the case here, because the decoration of this calix krater is the close replica of an Exekias original artwork exhibited at the Agora Museum in Athens, collection number AP1044 . Three inscriptions on the krater signed by Exekias - Διομεδες retr., Hεγτορ retr., and Π̣ατ̣ρ̣οκλος - help to identify this scene as the fight on the body of Patroklos.
In the lower band, below the fight, two lions attack a bull.
CARC / CAVI www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black figure calyx krater
In the manner of Exekias by Verdheles
Archaic Period
Ca. 550 BC
From Pharsalos, Thessaly
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, NM 26746