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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure EUR-vat-037. The Boeotian shield of the Trojan War hero Achilles (playing petteia (board game with dice) with his cousin Ajax, not shown), decorated with the images of swirling, rearing, bearded snake and panther or lioness (the iconographic reference to the complicated and dramatic events preceding the wedding of Achilles' parents, hero Peleus and shapeshifting sea-nymph Nereid Thetis) atop and below the head of the chief-satyr Silenus (Papposilenus?) or wise and kind centaur Chiron, Achilles' childhood tutor and his father Peleus' rescuer and marital advisor; the Boeotian shield of the Trojan War hero Ajax the Great Telamonid (not shown), decorated with the images of swirling, rearing, bearded snakes atop and below the head of Gorgon Medusa. |
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| Ceramic (earthenware), polychrome pigments |
Vase painting (Attic black-figure amphora, painted decoration, detail) |
Exekias (fl. 545- 530 BC) |
Middle Archaic, 540-530 BC |
Vulci, Lazio, Central Italy (Etruria) |
Musei Vaticani (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco), Vatican, Inventory № 16757 |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Vatican Expedition, 29 March - 25 April 2015). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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