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519162001
Description
Pottery: black-figured kylix in 'Siana' shape. Purple and white accessories. Interior, in a medallion: A stag to left, with lofty antlers, rubbing its nose with right hind-hoof. Round the design, a band of guilloche-pattern (black on red ground with white accessories), between two borders of dots. Exterior: (a) Symposion: Four bearded male figures reclining on couches to right; before each is a table with food and a stool below it. The first and third have purple himatia, and are turned towards the second and fourth, who have white himatia; all have long hair. Above are suspended five lekanides (?) and four kerata alternating, and on the left a lyre. (b) Combat of warriors, in three pairs: all have long hair, helmets, greaves, shields, and spears; on the shield of the second from the left is a lion's head erased to left, on the fourth a ram's head, as the last, on the sixth a Satyr's head to left with long hair.
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