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An Attic black-figure pottery lekythos
the body showing two seated women, drinking, their cups raised to each other in toast, a third woman seated to the right watching them over her shoulder, vine trails in the field, with incised and white painted details, the shoulder with a band of interlacing lotus buds, repaired across the body -- 7 5/8in. (19.4cm.) high, circa 500 B.C.; a Sicilian terracotta figure of a goddess, wearing a chiton, standing holding a flower(?) to her breast in her right hand, her hair falling forward over the shoulders, crowned with a polos, on integral base, repaired -- 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) high, early 5th Century B.C.
See Colour Plate 1 for item one
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