05-14-2007, 10:42 PM
Tks Gioi -- see if you can pin it down. Someone suggested it was Exekias, which would date it to around 550-540 b.c., but the use of the white suggests a later copy of Exekias' work ( see e.g. later copies of Exekias' famous Ajax and Achilles playing 'draughts' piece).
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff