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Pottery: red-figured hydria. Designs red and white with yellow accessories. On the neck, rays. On the shoulder is a spout in the form of a lion's head with mane, between two youthful male heads to the front wearing myrtle-wreaths; at the back, two palmettes springing from acanthus-leaves, and in the field, four rosettes. On the body, frieze with chariot-race: On either side is a charioteer driving in a quadriga to left, with white Phrygian cap with lappets, long girt chiton, and white sleeved under-garment, each leaning forward with goad in left hand and reins in right passing round waist and knotted at back; the alternate horses each side are white, and the wheels of the quadrigae have eight spokes painted white. Behind each charioteer and in front of one group, a star and a crescent; in front of the horses on each side is a meta. In the field on the obverse are three oval objects with stripes. On the reverse the charioteer and quadriga have been repainted.
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