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Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) On the right a youth with a chelys in his left hand, wearing an himation and a radiated stephane, stands before a square base or altar, over which is a circular object. Upon this he pours wine from a fluted phiale held up in his right hand. On the right is a woman in a long chiton with apoptygma and girdle, her hair looped up with a dotted fillet; she stands en face, but looks at her companion and holds a trefoil oinochoe in her right, which hangs at her side. (b) An ephebos in mantle and fillet, his right resting on a staff, his body en face, looking to right. Later stage of graceful style. White tuning pegs and sash of lyre, wine, and fillet in b. Brown inner markings. The chords of the lyre are incised in the black glaze. Eye in profile. Below and above, strips of egg pattern.
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