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Pottery: red-figured lebes gamikos (wedding vase). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow; coarse style. On the shoulder, tongue-pattern; and on either side of the handles, moulded heads of Amazons in Phrygian caps. On the handles are knobs; that on the left is broken off; below the handles, palmettes and tendrils. (a) Pan to left, beardless, with fillet, string of beads over right shoulder, and goat's legs, in left hand a wreath, right hand extended to a Maenad, who moves away to left, looking back; her flesh is painted white, and she wears a close cap, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton fastened on the shoulders, and sandals, and holds out a cista in left hand, on which is fruit. (b) Maenad as on (a), running to left, looking back; she has no necklace, but thyrsos in right hand and cista in left, on which is a fruit; her chiton has an apoptygma, and a stripe down the side. In the field, a rosette.
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