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Pottery: red-figured pelike. Fine style. Brown edge of hair, lower folds of chitons in b, and necklace. Eye in profile, with eyelash. Below each side, a strip of maeander broken by red cross squares (diagonal); above, a strip of laurel wreath. At the lower insertion of each handle, a double palmette. (a) Apollo and Artemis. On the left Apollo, in long sleeved chiton and bordered himation fastened on right shoulder, his long hair looped up behind with the ends falling over, wreathed with laurel, stands holding a kithara attached to his left hand by a sash; in his right he holds out a phiale decorated with bosses within a wavy line. From the kithara a sash hangs, decorated with zigzags and dots, and a fringe. On the right Artemis in similar dress, her hair looped up with a radiated stephane, stands en face, but looks towards Apollo, holding in her right an oinochoe, and in her left a bow (bowstring not indicated). (b) Two women conversing; they stand in relatively the same positions as the figures in a. The one on the left raises her right over the open palm of her left; she wears a fillet, her companion a saccos decorated with pairs of dots; each wears a chiton and himation.
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