![]() ![]() Both women wear elaborately embroidered chitones (dresses) and heavy jewellery. To the right, Cassandra clings to the statue’s legs and shield as Ajax, son of Oileus, pulls her backwards by her hair. ![]() Helen rushes towards the statue from the left, looking back at a bearded Menelaos who pursues her with sword drawn. At the center of the main register, a white-painted shrine with pediment and palmette akroteria contains the Palladion, the cult-statue of Athena, shown helmeted and armed with spear and shield. ![]()
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