3-044-429 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora, about 510 BC. Storage Jar with Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game. Additional Info: Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Trojan War, play a board game on this Athenian black-figure amphora. Behind the table stands the goddess Athena. The scene of the warriors at leisure but with their armor at the ready might have taken place during a break in fighting the Trojan War.