Achilles and Ajax playing a board game. The names of Ajax and Achilles are inscribed, and they call out the numbers on the dice, three (tria) and four (tes[s]era), which are inscribed as if issuing from their mouths. A kalos inscription is on the right, and Exekiass signature (as potter) is on the left. If this scene was invented by Exekias, as some scholars believe, it must have been the prototype for the scene on figure 59.
Keywords: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game Achilles black-figure black-figured amphora Type A Attic by the Exekias Painter potter and painter clay Execias Achilles Akhilleus Achilleus Achille Trojan war dice game of dice warrior soldier round shield buckler helmet head-piece headpiece armor armour spear lance greave greaves chausses knemides ocrea Inv No 16757