Olpe with Ajax and Achilles Gaming in the Presence of Athena Artist: Unknown

ca. 500 B.C.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Terracotta, black-figure with added red and white

Dimensions

10 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (26 × 14.6 cm)
diameter of mouth: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
diameter of foot: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard

Accession Number

1913.108

Culture

Greek, Attic

Period

Late Archaic

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Ex collection Paul Arndt, Munich; purchased by Yale University with a gift from Rebecca Darlington Stoddard, 1913
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery (Darmstadt, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2016), 24–27, no. 16, Pl. 83, fig. 12
  • Claudie Fournier-Christol, Catalogue des Olpés Attiques du Louvre, de 550 á 480 environ (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1990),
  • Susan Woodford, "Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game on an Olpe in Oxford," Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982), 182, no. D 16, Appendix 1, no. D16
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 73–74, no. 108, fig. plate 3
  • Professor Paul V. C. Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 12, no. 109
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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