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Pottery: red-figured hydria. Design red on black ground, with yellow accessories. On the neck, egg-moulding and rude tongue-pattern; on the shoulder, laurel-wreath; below the design, wave-pattern; at the back, palmettes and tendrils. Youth to right, with long hair, wreath, strings of beads over left shoulder and round right thigh, and endromides with yellow studs, in his right arm a thyrsos; in right hand he holds out a myrtle-twig, and in left a, phiale to a female figure moving away and looking back at him. Her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears an embroidered open cap radiated in front, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long chiton with apoptygma to hips and border of dots and stripes down the front, fastened with fibulae on the shoulders, girdle with yellow studs, and sandals. Behind the youth is an embroidered taenia; under him, ground-lines indicated. Under each handle is a female head turned towards the design, with hair tied in a knot, radiated fillet, earrings, and necklace.
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