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1613447092
Description
Pottery: red-figured pelike.
Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Above, (a) palmettes, egg-moulding, and pendants; (b) rosettes, and white and yellow spots. Under the handles, palmettes; below, all round, maeander and chequer.
(a) Toilet-scene: In the centre is a female figure seated on a four-legged stool to right, with feet on a footstool; she has long curls, sphendone and beaded fillet, earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation over lower limbs, and white sandals, in left hand a mirror into which she looks. Behind her is a female figure with curly hair, beaded fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton, himation on left arm, and sandals, in right hand a fluted phiale, in left a fan; before her is a taenia. Before the first figure is a youth turned to the front, leaning against a white laver on a fluted stem; in the laver is a lyre painted white, and on the right of it, an embroidered taenia. The youth has a b… (See Merlin record for full description)
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