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1613000718
Description
Red figured pottery lebes with a cover.
Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Round the lip, egg-moulding; on the neck, ivy; on the shoulder, palmettes alternating with lotos-leaves in white, and egg-moulding; below the designs, maeander. On the cover is a vine-wreath in white; in the centre is a knob in the form of an apple, in the colour of the clay. Round the foot of the stand is an ivy-wreath in white.
Round the body is a frieze with a Dionysiac scene: In the centre is Dionysos seated to left, with curls, fillet and ivy-wreath twisted together, and bordered himation, in right hand a cantharos, in left a thyrsos; above him is a vine. Before him is Ariadne seated to left, looking back towards him; she has curls, radiated ampyx, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, bordered himation over lower limbs, embroidered shoes, thyrsos in right hand, in left a tympanon resting on the ground. Behind Dionysos is a female figure to left, wit… (See Merlin record for full description)
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