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Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Male figure pursuing a woman. On the left a bearded man in a short tied chiton with sleeves, with long hair looped up with a woollen (?) fillet, from which a single long tress escapes on each side of the neck, and a mantle hanging from his left arm, carrying a long sceptre horizontally in his right hand, advances rapidly to right; he grasps with his left hand the shoulder of a woman closely draped in a long chiton and himation, and wearing a saccos, who looks back at him as she moves away. The saccos has the end hanging behind the ear; sceptre surmounted with a palmette. Between the figures, KA??S, ?????. (b) A draped ephebos, with right resting on a crutch staff, confronted on left by a woman closely draped in a long chiton and himation which covers the back of her head. Her right hand clasped below the drapery is drawn in a spiral form. On one handle are incised characters, ??????? III. Purple inscription. No inner markings. The edge of the beard is indicated by black strokes on a brownish wash; the edge of the hair is dotted; the hair of the woman in a is indicated by a fringe of wavy ringlets covering the forehead. The eye is of the archaic form, with dotted circle set against the inner angle; in the case of the youth in b, the upper and lower row of eyelashes are drawn. Below, a continuous band of pairs of maeanders separated by red cross squares; above a, a strip of palmette and anthemion alternately; above b, a strip of maeander. Below each handle, a double palmette, from which on each side two large palmettes and a flower spread into the design.
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