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Pottery: red-figured stamnos. (a) Combat of Theseus with an Amazon. Theseus, in a helmet tilted back, with sword hanging at his side, his left foot on rising ground (not indicated), and shield (device, a galloping horse, red on black ground, the hind part only seen), awaits with couched spear the attack of the Amazon who gallops from left towards him, uplifting her battle-axe; she wears a kidaris, anaxyrides and jerkin with patterns of zigzags and dots, and a short tunic with a pattern of circles. Between the figures is inscribed, T?S?S, T??[e]??; below, E?IME?ES K???S, '?p?µ?d?? ?a???. (b) A bearded man in a mantle to right, with right resting on a staff, is approached on either side by a woman in long chiton, mantle and saccos, with outstretched right hand; the right hand one carries a branch (as suppliant ?). Above the man is inscribed SIM•S, S?µ[?]?. Graceful drawing. Purple reins, inscription, belts, and branch, Brown edge of hair and markings of Amazon's dress. Eye in profile. Below, a band of sets of three maeanders separated by red cross squares; round the shoulders, tongue pattern; round the lip and handles, egg pattern. Above and below each handle, a pattern composed of five palmettes.
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