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Pottery: red-figured oinochoe (jug). Design red on black ground. Above, palmettes and wave-pattern; below, maeander and crosses all round; at the back, palmettes. Trefoil mouth, much pinched in. Symposion: On the end of a couch is a female figure seated to left, looking to right, with long curls, bracelets, long chiton, bordered himation over lower limbs, and sandals, right hand raised, in left a tympanon. On the couch recline two beardless male figures, the one on the left looking back at the other; both have himatia over lower limbs, and striped cushions under their left arms; the first extends right hand to the female figure, the other has curly hair and fillet, and right hand raised; over them is a vine. The couch is covered with a panther's skin, and the legs end in panthers' claws; in front of it are two three-legged stools, with feet ending in panthers' claws, ornamented with chevrons. Next is a nude female figure to right with close striped cap, necklace, bracelets, and sandals, resting right hand on the couch, and extending left hand to two beardless male figures reclining on another. They have curly hair and bordered himatia over lower limbs, and striped pillows under their left arms; each extends right arm, and the one on the left holds a skyphos in left hand; above them is a vine. The couch has a bordered coverlet, and in front are two stools as before; on the one on the right is fruit.
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