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ARTIST: Python Painter (Greece)

TITLE OF WORK: Female figure dancing to left. Pottery: red-figured skyphos (cup)

TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured skyphos

DATE: -340

DATE DETAILS: BC approx.

DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 24.4 cm

COMMENTS: Found in Puglia, Italy. Made in Paestum. Dancer, apparently a maenad, has head thrown right back, bushy hair, long chiton with a stripe down the front, sandals, bracelet on right arm which is extended

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Paestum

KEYWORDS: maenad, thyrsus