An Attic white ground lekythos by the Gela Painter, the main body frieze showing a draped central figure playing the double flute, flanked on each side by a nude male, the man to the right playing a tambourine and the one to the left dancing and holding a thyrsos in his right hand, palmettes and rays on the shoulder, repaired -- 10in. (25.4cm.) high, circa 490 B.C.

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An Attic white ground lekythos by the Gela Painter, the main body frieze showing a draped central figure playing the double flute, flanked on each side by a nude male, the man to the right playing a tambourine and the one to the left dancing and holding a thyrsos in his right hand, palmettes and rays on the shoulder, repaired -- 10in. (25.4cm.) high, circa 490 B.C.
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