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English: Ajax (Aias) fights Glaukos over the dead body of Achilles, while Paris and Aeneas look on. Helping Ajax is Athena with a snaky aegis. A Chalcidian Amphora from 540-530 BCE, formerly in the Pembroke-Hope Collection in Deepdene, England, now lost. Drawing is based on A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (Berlin/Leipzig 1927), pl. 12
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Drawing based on a lost Greek Vase from 540 BCE. A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (Berlin/Leipzig 1927), pl. 12

The vase was formerly in the Pembroke-Hope collection in Deepdene, England. See LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae) “Achilleus” no. 850. See Kemp-Lindemann 220.
Author "The Inscription Painter", Chalkis, 550 BCE

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