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496962001
Description
Pottery: White-ground lekythos (oil or perfume flask). Boreas and Zephyros bringing the body of a warrior (Memnon ?) his tomb. The tomb is indicated by a plain stele, around which two taeniae are tied (now faded), resting on a triple plinth. On left Boreas, winged and distinguished by his rough hair and beard, in a short chiton, bends forward holding with both arms the thighs of the dead person, whose body is supported on the right by Zephyros, with both hands under its shoulders. Zephyros is youthful winged figure, with long straight hair falling to his shoulders, wearing short chiton which has a broad border at the upper and lower edges; he looks at Boreas. The warrior, a youthful figure with wavy hair falling to his shoulder wears a cuirass decorated around the waist with a band of egg pattern. Drawing of good period, partly faded. Design in thinned black outline; hair dark red (faded). Chiton of Boreas, and borders of chiton of Zephyros, and taeniae vermilion; pattern of cuirass yellow. Eye in profile. Above, maeander; on shoulder, pattern of three palmettes, brown on white.
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