AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE KYLIX, the exterior showing a scene with two warriors wearing crested helmets and greaves and holding circular shields flanked by two elders wearing long bordered himations, behind them and on the reverse are nude youths and draped females facing one another and gesticulating, diminutive male figures under the twin handles, the interior black-glazed with reserved central tondo, repaired, first half of 5th Century B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE KYLIX, the exterior showing a scene with two warriors wearing crested helmets and greaves and holding circular shields flanked by two elders wearing long bordered himations, behind them and on the reverse are nude youths and draped females facing one another and gesticulating, diminutive male figures under the twin handles, the interior black-glazed with reserved central tondo, repaired, first half of 5th Century B.C.
9¾in. (24.8cm.) across handles

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