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A South Italian red-figure pottery hydria
with two handles on shoulder and a third vertical handle joined to neck, showing a winged naked youth standing, holding a fillet behind him in his left hand, offering a mantle to a draped seated figure, band of tongues above and below figures, another encircling the rim, repaired with some restoration to rim -- 10in. (25.3cm.) high, early 4th Century B.C.
with two handles on shoulder and a third vertical handle joined to neck, showing a winged naked youth standing, holding a fillet behind him in his left hand, offering a mantle to a draped seated figure, band of tongues above and below figures, another encircling the rim, repaired with some restoration to rim -- 10in. (25.3cm.) high, early 4th Century B.C.