Greek Vase

An Attic red-figured amphora of Naloan shape, Greek, c450BC, hitherto unknownDecorated by the Achilles Painter, an anonymous artist artist so-named for hisamphora in the Vatican (the most classical of all vase-painters). On the frontis a young man g An Attic red-figured amphora of Naloan shape, Greek, c450BC, hitherto unknown Decorated by the Achilles Painter, an anonymous artist artist so-named for his amphora in the Vatican (the most classical of all vase-painters). On the front is a young man grasping his spear, and on the back a single figure of a bearded man holding a staff. THe only vase by the Achilles painter outside the BM.