Replica Attic Black-Figure Amphora by Exekias depicting Achilles and Penthesilea, ca. 540-530 BCE Greek Mythology, Athenian Artists, and the Etruscans By the 6th century BCE, Greek vase painters, ...

Greek vase painters organized the imagery in a sequence ... trade because goods such as grains and oil were stored in huge amphora-shaped vases. The vase painters were not considered artists ...

When the Ure Museum acquired it, in 1947, this amphora ... the top part of the vase, at least, as telling the story of Troilos, the Trojan Prince who was ambushed by the Greek hero Achilles ...