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| Keywords: Antimenes Painter - Black-figure Amphora with Ajax Carrying the Dead Achilles - Walters 4817 - Detail A.jpg The death of Achilles which occurred after the events recounted in The Iliad was described in another epic poem called The Aethiopis which has not survived On the front of this amphora the dead Achilles is carried from the Trojan battlefield by his comrade Ajax In front of Ajax a woman leads the way and raises her hand to tear at her hair in a gesture of mourning Two armed warriors follow behind On the back two armed horsemen clash on the battlefield their horses rearing above a fallen warrior trapped beneath them between 530 520 BC Archaic terracotta cm 38 1 27 9 accession number 48 17 18168 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome before 1897 no 183 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Image and Word The Mitchell Gallery Annapolis 1989 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ajax carrying the body of Achilles Antimenes Painter Ancient Greek Neck amphoras Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum 530s BC pottery 520s BC pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
