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Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar). Design red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck, tongue-pattern; on the shoulder and at the back, palmettes. Female tumbler to left, in the act of turning a somersault, standing on her hands with feet over her head; her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears earrings, white belt, close-fitting garment over hips, and white bands round her ankles and insteps. Before her is a stool, and behind, a small table (or potter's turn-table); above are a festoon of beads and two tympana, on one of which is a star.
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