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Achilles and Ajax playing [[dice (nonfiction)]].

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Artist: By Workshop of Diosphos Painter

Description: English: Achilles (on the left) and Ajax the Great (on the right) playing dice, identified by inscriptions. Detail of a white-figure Attic lekythos.

Date:	circa 500 BC
Medium:	terracotta
Dimensions:	Height: 14 cm (5.5 in). Diameter: 6.2 cm (2.4 in).

Attribution:

Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011), CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14913532