Combat of Centaur and Lapithae: A Centaur advancing from right with wreath, panther-skin knotted in front, ridge of thick hair below waist, and a branch in left arm, seizes Laodameia by left arm and round neck she has just stepped down to right from a chair, which has highly ornamented legs and cushion (as above). Above, behind the old man, hangs a cista, on which are painted human figures in white.Ģ. She wears earrings, necklace, veil, long chiton, and himation her right hand is placed under her chin.
On the right is a paidagogos to right, with white hair and beard, short girt chiton, bordered himation, endromides with white tops turned over, and crook in left hand his right hand is extended as if conversing with a female figure confronting him. Before Phaedra hovers Eros to left, represented on a smaller scale, with long hair and sandals, holding out a taenia behind her is the nurse to right, with white hair, long girt chiton, and himation, right hand supporting her chin, left extended. Her hair is gathered up under an ampyx and veil, and she wears earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long chiton, and sandals behind her, above, hangs an Apulian sistrum, tied with a purple taenia. On the left is Phaedra, seated on a four-legged cushioned stool to right, with downcast face her legs are crossed and her hands clasped on her right knee her feet rest on a footstool. The other wears earrings, double necklace, long transparent chiton, and shoes her hair rises in a mass over the forehead and falls on the shoulders. The first wears earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long chiton and apoptygma to hips with border of dots, and sandals her hair is gathered under a close cap. In front of it are two female attendants confronted the one on the left holds up a large white fan in right hand and extends left hand to the other, whose hands are placed behind her head. On the upper row: Phaedra's love-sickness: In the centre is a large couch, the legs inlaid with palmettes, and volutes and Gorgoneia above along the front, spirals and other patterns on the couch is a mattress with lozenge-pattern and an embroidered purple cushion at each end beneath it is a large low stool with inlaid patterns in white, yellow, and purple. Above the designs, laurel-wreath below, the vase is fluted. Apulian pottery red-figured calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns black on red ground, with accessories of purple, white, and yellow.
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