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Pottery: black-figure neck-amphora. (a) Ajax and Cassandra: On the left is Ajax (son of Oileus) to right, bearded and fully armed, with spear in right hand, and chlamys on left arm. He stretches out left hand to seize Cassandra, who flees to left, seeking the aid of Athene. She wears a fillet, and a himation thrown across her body, and looks back at Ajax. Athene stands to left in attitude as on the Panathenaic vases, with long tresses and high-crested helmet with fillet, aegis, long embroidered chiton, spear, and shield with device of a bearded snake to left. (b) Dionysos to right, with long beard and tresses, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation with purple spots, in right hand a vine-branch, in left a cantharos. On either side of him is a Satyr with long hair, dancing and looking back at him.
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