Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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No text description is available for this image![< SJ ~~ 7S v f j acs verse, a seated silen, and a youth facing him (Marsyas and Olympus ?), on the reverse a pair of youths; [talo-Greek work of the IV Cent. B.c. high, the surface much damaged, but the design almost all visible; the body is divided into four friezes, the- three lower ones filled with animals, the uppermost and largest decorated on one side with a combat between two warriors, with two women, two elders, and a mounted youth looking on, on the other by four mounted youths; on the obverse, a mock inscription ; Attic work of the so-called Tyrrhenian class, Second Quarter or Middle of the VI Cent. B.c. (Pl. VT] scenes on the bedy, circa 500 B.c. 2 ee 7 4 “)y,o j Z body, with broad mouth and short upright rim, on circular foot, on the shoulders two projecting ram’s head handles, round the shoulders an impressed design similar to that of a band of Egyptian lotus flowers, below that another band of impressed scroll devices, and lower still a band of elongated egg and tongue style, round the lower part parallel impressed lines; light grey pottery, unglazed, 44 in. high water is drawn for cattle, and cattle approaching, on an oblong flat slab, 74 in. by 103 an. birds at the top, animals below, in Corinthian style, 104 m. high to 24in high; from Lord Amherst’s collection (6) wreath, 18 in. high, without the pedestal; the shoulders are modern, and the trp of the nose: the head and neck are of the Roman period Objects, consisting of Archaic Figures of warriors and others, early Fibulae, Roman Masks, a phallic Pendant, Chains, Pins, Keys, enamelled Mounts, and others, well mounted and arranged on a velvet covered board a lot](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31650417_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)