Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Homer / Iliad / Cycles / Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F 205 Inf. (Ambrosian Iliad) / 19th-century engravings
Ancient / Homer / Iliad / Book XXII: Achilles kills Hector / vv. 1-6: The Greeks march to the walls of Troy, only Hector stays outside the gate
Ancient / Homer / Iliad / Book XXII: Achilles kills Hector / vv. 25-91: Priamus and Hecuba lament Hector's impending fate

Further details

After the Ilias Ambrosiana, Constantinople or Alexandria late 5th - early 6th century

Artist or creator

Milanese after
Byzantine

Date

1819

Location

London, Warburg Institute

Book, text or document (source of image)

Mai, Angelo. Iliadis fragmenta antiquissima cum picturis. Mediolani. 1819. Plate: 54.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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