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Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater.
(a) Contest of Heracles and Apollo for the tripod. Heracles, nude and bearded, wearing only a fillet, moves to left with the tripod held across him in his left hand, so that the legs pass on each side of his body; he turns round as he moves, brandishing over his head in his right his club. Apollo strides forward, seizing with his left hand the lebes of the tripod, and with his right the club of his opponent; he also is nude, and wears his hair looped up (with a tress in front of the ear), and a laurel-wreath. Between them the fawn of Apollo looks up at the club of Heracles and shrinks backward. Each of the figures has a line drawn across the left ankle.
(b) Acamas and Demophon bringing back Aethra. Aethra is represented as an old bent woman in a long spotted dress of Ionic form, with a broad black stripe down the centre, and a heavy mantle gathered up over her shoulders, her hair looped up with a narrow fillet: she walks to left with the aid o… (See Merlin record for full description)
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