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1613555569
Description
Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora.
(a) Phineus and a Harpy. On the right Phineus, a bearded blind man, in a long sleeved chiton and mantle, is seated en face on a diphros, his feet resting on a square base, holding upright in his left hand a sceptre or staff (?), mostly broken away, but of which the top is partly preserved. He turns his head to left and extends his right hand over a table (trapeza), on which are meat and flowers; this hand is broken away. His lips are parted, as if he were speaking. On the left a Harpy flies away, looking back at Phineus, and carrying in each hand a loaf or cake and a piece of meat. She has long hair, and a chitoniscos apparently of thick material, decorated with regular rows of dots and thin brown lines within the folds. The ends only of her long bushy hair and of her fillet are preserved. Beside Phineus, ΚΑΛΟΣ, καλός.
(b) A Harpy as in flying to left with a cake and a piece of meat in each hand; the objects in her right hand are extended in … (See Merlin record for full description)
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