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Baked clay group of figures; seated Eros and Psyche embracing; Psyche is sitting on Eros' lap; he sits to the left, and they turn to face and kiss; she is in three-quarters profile to the left, her feet resting on a footstool; his left and her right arms are about each other's shoulders, and he presses her left breast with his left hand; his right and her left hands rest on top of the profiled forelegs of the stool; he is clad in a short chlamys (?), she is nude except for a himation which covers her legs; on the head they wear twisted wreaths; double mould, open base; back not worked; red clay, slipped; remnants of red paint on the himation.
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