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1613638926
Description
Pottery: red-figured kylix.
Interior: Within a thin red circle, a youth wearing a vine wreath and mantle decorated with circles over his shoulders (incorrectly drawn), holding keras in right, and wineskin in left, runs to right looking back: his feet rest on the circle. In field, imitation inscriptions. Around the lip, a border of large palmettes.
Exterior: (a) Birth of Athene. Near the centre, beside an Ionic column, Zeus seated to left, bearded and with long tresses, wreathed, long chiton and himation, in left a sceptre, in right a thunderbolt; his seat is an ordinary chair, with the back terminating at the top in a swan's neck curved downwards. From his head springs Athene to left, showing only from the breast upward, with helmet, chiton, and himation, shield with device of a Gorgoneion in outline, half seen, brandishing spear in right hand. Behind the chair stands Hephaistos (beardless, the upper part of his head missing) in himation, with axe (head missing) over left shou… (See Merlin record for full description)
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