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Description
Pottery: black figure amphoriskos. Design black on a red panel. Shoulder flat; small body. On the shoulder, tongue-pattern and guilloche. Symposion: A male and female figure (Dionysos and Ariadne ?) reclining on a couch, looking at each other; the male is bearded, with long hair, fillet and purple himation; his right arm is round the neck of the female, who has long hair and a purple himation; her flesh is painted white. The legs of the couch are inlaid with patterns; in front, a table and a footstool. On the right is a beardless male figure to left in white chiton reaching to the knees, playing the double flute with phorbeia (chin strap); the flute-case, sybent, hangs from his left arm. The rest of the design is occupied by eleven figures dancing, seven male and four female: on the left is a female to right confronted by a male; behind him is an unintelligible inscription, incised. Next, a male to right and female to left, side by side; a male to left; a male to right embracing a female to left; a male to left, with one hand raised; male to right confronted by a female, and a male to left looking back. All have long hair, with fillets; the females are nude, the males have short purple chitons. On the left of the couch is a nude male figure to right, with long hair and fillet, standing over a lebes with one handle on a stand; above are two objects suspended; on the right of the lebes is an unintelligible inscription incised, and above it another.
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