Timiades painter (active 570-560 BC) - 570 BC (circa) | The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

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GESTURES AND EXPRESSION

GODS AND MYTHS

Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb / Alone

Further details

Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena, at the left Nestor and Diomedes, at the right Amphilochos (perhaps mis/spelled for Antilochus), Antiphates, Aias and Phoenix

Artist or creator

Timiades painter (active 570-560 BC)

Date

570 BC (circa) - 550 BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1897,0727.2)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

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British Museum

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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