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The altar is oblong, and painted white it stands on two steps, and has a cornice with egg-moulding, and an upright block at each end.

A chaplet of beads hangs from the horns of the bull, one of which is represented as gilded. (a) Sacrifice of a bull: On the left is Nike to right, with hair in a knot, radiated ampyx, earrings, bracelets, and long girt chiton, on the further side of the bull, whom she leads up to the altar, placing a wreath on his head. Above the designs, laurel-wreath below, maeander and crosses below the handles, palmettes. Right hand and pours wine from a kantharos with his left hand.Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. Her hair is encircled withĪ wreath made of two snakes. Indicated by her pose and the flowing skirt of her chiton, SIDE B:ĭionysus with a satyr and a maenad. Painted in black paint added over the black background. Left arm and hand crossing her body holding a Thracian knife, and Her contorted pose is awkwardly rendered, with her

Thracian maenad, wearing a peplos, with her hair also bound by a His lyre above his head with his right arm. His right leg and supporting himself with his left hand. He moves to avoid the woman’s spear, stretching out She stabs Orpheus with a long spear.Ĭenter: Orpheus, nude with a folded mantle around his shouldersĪnd left arm. Thracian maenads wears a chlamys over a chiton, with her hairīound by a sphendone. Incised rock landscape atop a meander frieze.