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Pottery: black-figure neck-amphora. (a) Farewell scene: A warrior and archer side by side to left; the warrior has visored helmet, chlamys, greaves, two spears, and shield with device of a tripod; the archer is bearded and has a pointed cap, stippled trousers, bow and quiver. On either side, facing them, is an old man with white hair and beard (the one on the left partly bald), himation with purple spots, and wand in his hand. (b) In the centre, Apollo Citharoedos to right, beardless, with hair looped up under a laurel wreath, and himation, playing with a plectrum on the chelys, from which hangs drapery. Facing him is Hermes, seated on an okladias, bearded, with long hair, himation, petasos, endromides, and wand. Behind Apollo is Dionysos, seated on an okladias to right, with long beard, tresses confined at neck, ivy-wreath, long chiton with purple spots, and himation, in right hand a vine branch, in left a cantharos.
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