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volute krater Figure 119: Revelling satyrs, Attic psykter (wine cooler) in the red-figure style, signed by Douris, c. 480 BC. In the British Museum. Height 28.6 cm. Hades and Persephone Athenian red-figure cup, detail of a bearded reveler by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Louvre, Paris. Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.
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volute krater
Figure 119: Revelling satyrs, Attic psykter (wine cooler) in the red-figure style, signed by Douris, c. 480 BC. In the British Museum. Height 28.6 cm.
Hades and Persephone
Athenian red-figure cup, detail of a bearded reveler by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Louvre, Paris.
Odysseus slaying the suitors, detail of a red-figure skyphos from Tarquinii, c. 450 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ger.
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