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Pottery: red-figured pyxis and lid. Type of Garden of Hesperides. The frieze is divided in two by a large fountain of squared stones, supporting an entablature with metopes, triglyphs, and guttae; from the upper part of the right side, a straight spout projects, from which water flows into a hydria placed on the square base below; the hydria is already full, and the water overflows from it on the left; a girl, with a long chiton undertied with apoptygma and hair tied with a fillet, comes forward to remove it; above her her name, ??????TH, ‘?pp???t?. Behind her comes another girl, in Doric chiton schistos fastened on the shoulders with two upright pins, and dotted saccos with rolled-up edge, who carries in her left, by one of the side-handles, a hydria. On the right, a third in similar dress (without pins) and long hair with fillet, moves away to right, looking back, raising both hands in astonishment. Over these two figures is inscribed MA?AVPA, ?a?a??a. On the right is the tree of the Hesperides (?), an apple-tree round the stem of which a snake is twined, its head turned to left. On right, Thetis, dressed as Hippolyte, hair looped up with a fillet, stands plucking apples with her right; in her left, resting against her body, she has already three gathered; over her, her name, T???S, Tet??. Around the knob of the lid is a circle of tongue pattern (repeated under the edge of the lid and below the design on the body); outside this, a band of palmettes laid horizontally.
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