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1613329440
Description
Pottery: red figure kylix. Purple hair bands, wreaths and flutes. Brown inner markings only for upper folds of chiton in a. The locks of hair of the Seileni terminate in spiral curls. Beside each handle, a spiral, divided in every case by the body of a Siren.
Interior: Within thin red circle, Dancing Girl. She dances to left, head thrown back, playing on castanets: she wears a long chiton, the upper part decorated with crosses, a himation fastened on left shoulder, a saccos, earrings, necklace, and a bracelet on right wrist. In the field, imitation inscriptions.
Exterior: (a) Between two Sirens playing flutes, Dionysos and two Seileni. Dionysos (bearded, long chiton and mantle as in interior), holding keras in right, in left a vine branch which spreads on each side, moves to right, looking back at a Seilenos (bald over forehead) who advances holding out his right, and carrying a thyrsos on his left shoulder. On right a Seilenos moves to left, carrying a large wineskin over left… (See Merlin record for full description)
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