Vail’s colorized rendition of a B&W drawing of a lost Chalcidian Black-Figure Amphora from 540-530 BCE by the Inscriptions Painter depicting the epic death of Achilles. Note the arrow in Achilles’ ankle. Above Achilles stands Aias fighting off Paris with his bow still drawn.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES 
does someone knows where i can get this picture at hi resolution?
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If you click on the link to Wikimedia you’ll find where I uploaded it there. The largest image size is 2000×645 – here’s that link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/DeathOfAchilles_Rumpf_ChalkidischeVasen_colorized_in_the_manner_of_the_inscriptions_painter.png
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It says this is the rendition of a B+W drawing of a lost amphora. Do you know where I can find an image of the drawing? And where is it? Any information you can share about it would be very helpful.
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If you click on the Wikimedia link for the file I colorized from the black and white image, the original source file is credited and linked. Here’s the description for the B&W image: The source of the original image is a drawing based on a lost Greek Vase from 540 BCE. A. Rumpf, Chalkidische Vasen (Berlin/Leipzig 1927), pl. 12 The vase was formerly in the Pembroke-Hope collection in Deepdene, England. See LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae) “Achilleus” no. 850. See Kemp-Lindemann 220. (J. D.BEAZLEY ATTESTED LONG AGO THAT ONCE THIS AMPHORA WAS PEMBROKE, BUT NEVER HOPE!! — M. Iozzo). And here’s the link to the original B&W image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DeathOfAchilles_Rumpf_ChalkidischeVasen.jpg
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I am very interested in the spellings of the names on this vase. I recognise that some are reversed as this is a projection of a circular vase, but the pi in Paris’ name looks like a gamma, Aeneas is spelled Ainees (this one seems understandable enough) and, most interesting of all, Achilleus appears to be spelled with a psi. There is undoubtedly some excellent information that I am missing here. Can someone help me understand this?
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Your questions are understandable! Perhaps the newness of the written alphabet accounts for these discrepancies in spelling – widespread literacy takes many centuries to accomplish. Here’s a great resource that may help you: https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/aspects-of-literacy-in-the-athenian-ceramicus-hscmuxDXrF – thanks for your comment and hopefully someone else will have more to offer on the subject.
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That is most helpful. Thank you very much for taking the time to look into it and respond. I really appreciate it. This is precisely what I was looking for.
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