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Description
Pottery: red-figured amphora. Designs red on black ground, with slight accessories of white and yellow. On the neck, (b) a palmette; on the shoulder, wave-pattern. Below the handles, palmettes; below the designs, wave-pattern. On the neck: (a) Youthful head to left, wearing wreath. (a) Youth to left, leaning against a stele on which his chlamys is laid; he wears a wreath, and his right hand is raised as if conversing with a female figure before him. She wears a close cap, long chiton, himation, and sandals, and holds a yellow prochoos in left hand; in right she holds out a phiale to the youth. Above is a row of white dots; behind each figure, a phiale. (b) Eros running to left, looking back, and holding a wreath in left hand and a ball in right; he wears a fillet, anklet on left leg, and sandals. In the field, three phialae; on the ground, two plants.
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