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Description
Pottery: red-figured kylix.
Interior: Within a circle of alternate maeanders and red cross squares, a woman standing to right before a burning altar in form of an Ionic capital with volutes and egg moulding, half seen on right, on which she is pouring wine from a phiale. She wears a sleeved chiton, a himation, and a saccos with purple loop at the end.
Exterior: (a) Symposion: Three figures reclining to right on the ground-line; each leans his left arm on a cushion folded in two. The central figure, who is bearded, holds up in his right a chelys towards the left hand youth, who turns to receive it; the youth on the right holds against his breast a cotyle (black silhouette). Beside this figure hangs a basket, and beside the left hand figure his staff leans against the background.
(d) Similar scene: In this case the central figure (a youth) turns to right, playing on the flutes, towards the youth on right, who, with head thrown back and right arm clasped over the crown, seems… (See Merlin record for full description)
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