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493582001
Description
Pottery: red-figured pyxis and lid. Women at toilet, Erotes and a youth. The composition falls into two groups: (i) A woman seated to right on high ground, raising her left hand to her head, looks round at a youth on left, who with left foot raised bends forward towards her, extending his right; a mantle passes over his left thigh and is held by his left hand; he wears a fillet; between them a large square box, below which is a sash. On the left Eros crouches to right; his body is entirely restored, (ii) Behind the last figure, a woman moves rapidly to right, holding on her left a large square box surmounted by two beads, and a sash. She looks back at a woman who stands in three-quarter face to right, holding on her left a tall fluted amphora with cover, and a dotted sash; she turns to look at a crouching Eros on the left, who seems to give into her right an alabastron; his figure is entirely restored. Behind him a small conical mound (?) with flowers; between the two women, an alabastron. All the women wear a long tied chiton, decorated on the breast, a sphendone, earrings, necklace, and bracelets. Drawing, late. Around the body is a wreath of myrtle-leaves arranged in groups of three; below it, on the moulding, egg pattern. The design occupies a frieze around the handle; this handle is a modern restoration. The jewellery has been gilt on a raised surface. Around the edge, egg pattern.
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