A South Italian red-figure pottery pseudo-Panathenaic amphora, from the Amphorae Group, showing a seated woman holding a patera and mirror in her right hand, a fillet hanging below, a wreath in her left, and a fillet and rosette in the field, on the reverse, a head of a woman in profile to the left, her hair dressed in ringlets wearing a sakkos, palmettes under the handles, rays on the neck and laurel around rim, details applied in yellow and white, repaired -- 14.5in. (37cm.) high, 340-320 B.C.

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A South Italian red-figure pottery pseudo-Panathenaic amphora, from the Amphorae Group, showing a seated woman holding a patera and mirror in her right hand, a fillet hanging below, a wreath in her left, and a fillet and rosette in the field, on the reverse, a head of a woman in profile to the left, her hair dressed in ringlets wearing a sakkos, palmettes under the handles, rays on the neck and laurel around rim, details applied in yellow and white, repaired -- 14.5in. (37cm.) high, 340-320 B.C.

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