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Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. Designs red on black ground, with white accessories; very coarse. Above, laurel-wreath; below, maeander and chequer-patterns. (a) Three Maenads moving to right; the first has a white radiated fillet, and is wrapped in a himation; the second has a white radiated fillet wound round her hair, which is gathered in a bunch behind, himation over left shoulder, white shoes, right hand raised, tympanon in left; the third similar, but no tympanon. They are preceded by a youthful Satyr with a radiated white fillet, panther's skin over left arm, and white taenia held up in right hand. The flesh of the second and third Maenads is painted white, with yellow markings. (b) Three ephebi conversing, wrapped in himatia, the centre one to right; the one on the left has a strigil, the centre one a ball on which is a cross.
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