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Pottery: black-figured lekythos. Design partly painted, partly outlined in black, with accessories of bright red, and incised lines on the black, on a cream-coloured ground (red on the shoulder). Above the design, maeander. The Dioscuri coming to the feast of the Theoxenia: A couch with three coverlets and a cushion at either end, all painted over in red; a rhipis (fan) lies on the cushion on the right; the legs are inlaid with palmettes, and have Ionic caps above; along the side of the couch are figures of two dogs (?) to right, and rosettes (forming a frieze between the capitals). Above are the Dioscuri riding to right on black horses, beardless, with black hair and red chlamydes floating behind. Below the couch is an inscription.
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