Amphora Achilles slaying Penthesilea Ancient Greek Vase Pottery Museum Copy 530 BC

*MADE IN GREECE – HANDMADE – HAND PAINTED * 

Dimensions (approximately): 

Height :  31 cm         (12.2in) 

width:     20,5 cm         (8.07in)

Net Weight: 1,9   kgr    (4.2 lb)

Material: Clay – Genuine Ceramic

Our vase is a copy (in smaller scale) of the famous ancient Greek  Black-figured pottery amphora known as « Achilles and Penthesilea »  which is exhibited in the British Museum in London.

Image description

Front side: Achilles slaying Penthesilea: Achilles steps to right, bearded, with long tresses, fully armed, high-crested helmet and short striped chiton, and has beaten down the Amazon queen Penthesilea on one knee, and plunges spear into her throat. She has a high-crested helmet with cheek-pieces and serpent in relief, short diapered chiton, over which is a pardalis (leopard skin), sword and shield, and looks back at him, thrusting vainly with spear; a stream of blood gushes from her wound.

Back side: Dionysos and Oinopion: Dionysos to left (facing left), bearded, with hair looped up and wreathed with ivy, long white chiton and embroidered himation, holds in left hand vine-branches, and with right gives a cantharos to his son, Oinopion, who stands facing him, nude and beardless, his hair looped up with a myrtle wreath, holding an oinochoe in right hand.