An Attic Black-figured Lekythos, attributed to the Phanyllis Group, circa 510 B.C.

with spreading foot, offset neck, and flaring mouth, the front painted with Achilles and Ajax playing a board game between two palm trees, each hero crouching and intent on the game, holding a lance and wearing a chiton, corslet, himation over the shoulder, and high-crested Corinthian helmet, his Boeotian shield behind him, Athena standing in the foreground and looking to left, holding a spear, and wearing a himation, peplos, aegis, and high-crested helmet; linked palmettes on the shoulder, tongues below the neck, rays on the neck, the details in added red and white, a dipinto under the foot.

Ferruccio Bolla (1911-1984), Lugano
Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 70, November 14th, 1986, no. 199, pl. 38

Muse, Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, vols. 23/24, 1989/1990, p. 53, fig. 5 (part)
Beazley Archive Pottery Database no. 16650

For closely related examples of the same scene attributed to the Phanyllis Group see the two lekythoi in the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, inv. nos. 73.49.01 and 82.299 (see Muse [cf. supra], p. 53, figs. 2 and 4). Also see Christie's, New York, June 8th, 2001, no. 16.