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Overview: handle front

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Mouth and handle

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Front: detail

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Left side: monkey and mourner

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Right side: mourners

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Rider

Collection: University Museums, University of Mississippi
Summary: Front: Suicide of AjaxBack: Rider galloping to the left
Ware: Corinthian
Painter: Attributed to the Boar Hunt Painter
Attributed By: D.A. Amyx
Date: ca. 675 BC - ca. 640 BC
Dimensions: H. 0.064 m
Primary Citation: Amyx 1988, 342, 559, 637, 643, 671 n. 130, 673, pls. 135.2a-b
Shape: Aryballos
Ceramic Phase: Middle Corinthian
Period: Archaic

Condition: Broken and mended; the surface is quite worn all around

Decoration Description:

Ajax, who has fallen on his sword, is attended by three Achaian mourners; an ape, at left, mimicks the mourning gestures. A snake is coiled on the bottom of the aryballos.

Additional decoration includes a frieze of tongues on the lip; a wreath around the rim; checkerboard and chevrons on the thick handle; and a chevron frieze around the bottom.

Shape Description: Round aryballos

Inscriptions: *A*I*W*A*S (retrograde); *A*I*W*A*S; *D*I*O[...]); *Q*R*A*S*U*M*E[*D*E]*S (retrograde); *P[...]; *N*I*K*I*P[*P]*O*S; *P*O*D*A[...]*O*S (retrograde)

Collection History: Formerly in The David M. Robinson Collection, Harvard inv. 372. Purchased from Robert Hecht (Hesperia Art), Feb. 1957.

Other Bibliography: Atti Magna Graecia 5 (1964) 74, pl. 17c