A South Italian red-figure pottery pelike, with tall neck and wide everted rim, each side showing the head of a woman in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos and necklace, vitruvian scroll motif around the rim, palmettes below the handles -- 7in. (17.8cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.
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A South Italian red-figure pottery pelike, with tall neck and wide everted rim, each side showing the head of a woman in profile to the left, wearing a sakkos and necklace, vitruvian scroll motif around the rim, palmettes below the handles -- 7in. (17.8cm.) high, late 4th Century B.C.
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