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A Greek (Attic) bell krater (wine bowl)
First quarter 4th century BC
Attica
Black on red clay
Height: 33cm
Diameter: 35cm
Diameter: 35cm
Museum number: L16
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 512
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Side A
Woman in long chiton and himation (?) standing facing left with two torches, facing Satyr standing facing right with drinking horn in right hand, and at the far right a woman in a chiton and himation with long, sprouting thrysos vertically in right hand.
Side B
Two youths in long himations, staffs vertically in extended right hands, standing facing a youth centre, standing right in a long himation.
Laurel fillet border under the rim; below the frieze an ovolo border.
Woman in long chiton and himation (?) standing facing left with two torches, facing Satyr standing facing right with drinking horn in right hand, and at the far right a woman in a chiton and himation with long, sprouting thrysos vertically in right hand.
Side B
Two youths in long himations, staffs vertically in extended right hands, standing facing a youth centre, standing right in a long himation.
Laurel fillet border under the rim; below the frieze an ovolo border.
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