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Pottery: red-figured skyphos. Designs red on black ground; palmette-patterns between. (a) Ephebos to right, with bordered drapery behind him, sandals, and staff, in left hand a strigil; a small bird is perched to left on his right hand, at which a cat on his back looks over his right shoulder. Facing him is a female figure with hair in a knot, open cap, necklace, bracelets, long chiton and himation, both bordered, and sandals; her right hand is extended, her left holds up her drapery. Between them is a ball on which are patterns. (b) Eros to right, with hair gathered under a fillet, anklet on left leg, and wings spread, holding an open cista in left hand; at his feet is a duck to left, looking up. Facing him is a female figure with embroidered cap, earrings, necklace, bracelets, long bordered chiton with apoptygma or upper fold down to her hips, holding in right hand a mirror, in left an egg.
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