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Lot Essay
Depicted on the body is a wounded warrior striding to the right, with his chlamys tied around his lower abdomen. He wears a Corinthian helmet with two plumes, greaves and a sword at his waist. At his feet is his Boeotian shield with a tripod as the blazon. In the field is a nonsense inscription.
E. Hatzivassiliou (op. cit., p. 156) notes that this scene “finds no parallels in the extant visual record.” Hatzivassiliou asks, “Is this an anti-heroic act, a warrior walking away from the battlefield and leaving his shield behind? Or is he perhaps intended as a ghost, the life-size, wingless eidolon of a warrior who died in battle?...The wounded warrior on our olpe brings to mind a passage in the Iliad…where Aineas, wounded by Diomedes, is removed from the battlefield by Aphrodite and Apollo devises a human-like eidolon resembling the hero.”
E. Hatzivassiliou (op. cit., p. 156) notes that this scene “finds no parallels in the extant visual record.” Hatzivassiliou asks, “Is this an anti-heroic act, a warrior walking away from the battlefield and leaving his shield behind? Or is he perhaps intended as a ghost, the life-size, wingless eidolon of a warrior who died in battle?...The wounded warrior on our olpe brings to mind a passage in the Iliad…where Aineas, wounded by Diomedes, is removed from the battlefield by Aphrodite and Apollo devises a human-like eidolon resembling the hero.”