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473143001
Description
Pottery: red-figured kylix. Interior: Within a thin red circle, meeting of Theseus and Ariadne (?). Theseus stands to right playing on chelys; he is wreathed, and has long hair, and an himation. Confronting him is Ariadne, holding a flower in her right, and with her left raising the hem of her dress. She has her hair looped up with fillet, earrings, chiton, and a mantle fastened on right shoulder and decorated with an embattled border, the folds terminating in studs. Above, ?a??e s?. The figures stand on a thin red line, separating them from a small exergue. Exterior: (a) Theseus carrying off Antiope. On left is a quadriga, into which Theseus steps, holding in right reins and whip, in left reins and two spears; he is wreathed and wears a cuirass, a mantle over his shoulders, and greaves: his left arm is thrown around the waist and right arm of Antiope, who holds in her left a bow, and who wears a high peaked kidaris, round which is a wreath, earrings, Phrygian dress, and a quiver, gorytos, hanging at her waist from a cross-belt: her tunic is decorated with a zigzag pattern, her anaxyrides with eyes set vertically: beside her, ANTIO?EIA, ??t?spe?a. On right two warriors advance; the foremost, Peirithoös, in a short chiton with a deep fringe, a cuirass decorated with a black lion on the shoulder strap, greaves, and a helmet tilted back, holds in left two spears and a shield (no device); beside him, ?e(?)???(?)??. His companion Phorbas, in similar dress, holds only a spear, and looks back: his chiton and cuirass have no decoration, but a sword at his waist is ornamented on the upper part of the scabbard with two springing lions confronted. In front of him: F??ßa?. (b) A youth on left in a mantle, leaning on a knotted staff, converses with a girl confronting him, in long chiton, himation, bracelets, and sandals, who holds in her left a flower and extends her right towards him: the heads of both these figures are wanting. On either side, a boy with a switch on his shoulder, on horse-back. Above, on the right ?a?[?]?????. Purple is used for headdress, flowers, bracelets, sandals, switches, spears, and horse-trappings; for plectrum and cord in interior; the sword-belts and one horse's tail in a. Incised lines are used only for the chords of the lyre, and half the outline of the girl's hair in interior, and for the outline of the purple horse's tail. The hair of Theseus and Peirithoös in a has the upper part drawn in silhouette, from which falls a series of parallel wavy locks. No brown inner markings. Drapery somewhat mannered; the front part falls in regular pteryges, the back part with a wavy outline. Below the handles, an ornament composed of three upright palmettes, with purple-outlined centres, and two lotus flowers.
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