DescriptionExekias - ABV 144 8 - Achilles and Penthesilea - Memnon between two of his soldiers - London BM 1849-0518-10 - 01.jpg
English: object type / vase shape: attic black figure neck-amphora
- description side A: duel of Achilles and Penthesilea
- side B: Memnon between two of his African soldiers / attendants; inscription: AMASIS (EP)OIE_S(E)N (?): Amasis could rather be the name of the soldier on the right than the subscription of the potter; or does Exekias (potter and painter) with this inscription mock his collegue Amasis?
- production place: Athens
- painter: Exekias
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 540-520 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 50 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1849,0518.10 / Cat. Vases B 209
- bibliography: John D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford 1956, 144.8
- CVA London 4, plate 49.1 A-C
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