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Pottery: red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) with two zones of decoration on one side. Above, an assembly of gods, including Pan, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and Poseidon. Below, an old retainer watches as a Fury and a bull terrify Hippolytus' team so that he falls to his death. The scene was perhaps inspired by Euripides' "Hippolytus". On the other side, visitors at a naiskos (tomb), in which sits a youth with spears and helmet.
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