Achilles Painter is the known author of this vase, who was named after a vase painting of Achilles displayed in the Vatican. This vase is dated on 450-440 BC painted over a white ground of 37cm. The scene is a woman and her maid. The woman has a brown cloak over a yellow tunic, directing the maid carrying a grey casket. Anatomy is simple, elegant with no sense of volume. The painter used slip to outline figures.
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Merchants wielded enormous power in their cities. They belonged to guilds with strict admission criteria. Not just anyone could be a merchant. They held monopolies in trade and staged lavish parades where they greeted royalty as they entered the city.
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