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Brygos Painter: Attic Red-Figured Kylix 86.AE.286  wikidata:Q125157129 reasonator:Q125157129
Artist
Brygos Painter    wikidata:Q322192
 
Brygos Painter
Alternative names
Brygos painter
Description Greek vase painter
Date of birth/death 6th century BC
date QS:P,-550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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5th century BC
date QS:P,-450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Work period between circa 490 and circa 470 BC
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creator QS:P170,Q322192
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Title
Attic Red-Figured Kylix 86.AE.286 Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Attic Red-Figured Kylix 86.AE.286 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Attic Red-Figured Kylix 86.AE.286 Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"Copa de vino con el suicidio de Áyax"
Object type kylix / work of art Edit this at Wikidata
Genre red-figure pottery Edit this at Wikidata
Description

He must not be seen! I will cover his body, I will wrap him completely in my mantle. No one who loved him could bear to see the dark blood pouring from his nostrils and the raw wound in his breast.

So declared Tekmessa when she discovered Ajax’s dead body in an Athenian tragedy by Sophokles. Ajax was one of the greatest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War. The matter of his suicide was recounted in epic poetry now lost to us, but Greek vase-painters drew on this tradition in showing his death.

The interior of this Athenian red-figure cup shows Ajax impaled on his sword. Tekmessa, daughter of the king of Phrygia, and Ajax’s prize in war, rushes to cover the corpse with a cloak. The body lies supine, the blade emerging from Ajax’s chest. His head is cast back, the beard projecting upwards, and long hair trails behind his head. Beneath the body, the Brygos Painter attempted to convey the texture of the pebble beach where the hero set up his sword.

The exterior of the cup presents the events leading to Ajax's suicide. After Achilles had been killed, Ajax recovered his body from the Trojans. He expected to be rewarded with Achilles' armor, but Odysseus, who had fought off the Trojans as Ajax carried off the corpse, also laid claim to the armor. One side of this cup shows the two heroes with swords drawn, quarreling over who deserves the prize. Their comrades have to restrain them as Agamemnon tries to keep them apart. On the other side, the Greeks cast votes in the form of small stones piled on a low platform in front of the opponents. At the right side of the scene, the despondent Ajax clutches his bowed head, having lost by one vote.

Date between 490 and 480 BC
date QS:P,-450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,-0490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-0480-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium terracotta Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 11.2 cm (4.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 39.1 cm (15.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; depth: 31.4 cm (12.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+11.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+39.1U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,+31.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180401
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86.AE.286 (J. Paul Getty Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Classical Athens Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Attic red-figure kylix by Brygos Painter in the Getty Villa Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
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The Getty Center, Object 103W7A

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