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GODS AND MYTHS

Agamemnon / With other figures
Calchas / With other figures
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / The ghost of Achilles demands that Polyxena be sacrificed
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb / Alone
Menelaus / With other figures
Ulysses / With other figures / Miscellaneous

Further details

From left to right: a herald, the seer Calchas, Agamemnon, Neoptolemus who is about to kill Polyxena, the shade of Achilles, Ulysses and two other Greek warriors (perhaps Acamas and Demophon, or one of them may be Menelaus)

Artist or creator

Etruscan

Date

4th century BC

Location

Orvieto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto (Found at Torre San Severo)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

E. Galli, 'The Etruscan Sarcophagus of Torre San Severo in Orvieto', Art and Archaeology, VI, 5 (November 1917), pp.229-34

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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