Black-Figure Hydria Fragment Depicting Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice at Troy

AAT Object Form/Functionhydriae

AAT Object TechniqueBlack-figure

AAT Object Form/Functionsherds

CultureGreek, Attic

PeriodArchaic

Datelate 6th Century BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer

Dimensions5 x 9 1/2 in. (12.7 x 24.1 cm)

Object number2004.033.002

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 28, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesHotel Drouot, Paris, Collection d'antiquities grecques & romaines (11 au 14 Mai 1903), 19, number 63.
L.D. Caskey and J.D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Part III (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1963), 3, note 2.
Heide Mommsen, "Achill und Aias pflichtvergessen?," in Tainia: Roland Hampe zum 70. Geburtstag am 2. Dezember 1978, ed. Roland Hampe et al. (Mainz am Rhein: P. von Zabern, 1980), 139-52.
Susan Woodford, "Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game on an Olpe in Oxford," Journal of Hellenic Studies 102 (1982): 184, number 12.
Sotheby's New York, Antiquities (June 9, 2004), lot 16.
Sheramy D. Bundrick, "Altars, Astragaloi, Achilles: Picturing Divination on Athenian Vases," in Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Religion, ed. Sandra Blakely (London: Lockwood, 2017), 60, figure 5.

ProvenanceWith Hotel Drouot, Paris, France, May 11-14, 1903, number 63. Ex coll. Charles-Rene de Paul de Saint-Marceaux (1845-1915), Paris, France. Thence by descent. Exported from France January 2004. Purchased by MCCM from Sotheby's New York, June 9, 2004, lot 16 (part).

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