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There are 4 objects for which Comparanda contains → now
13.10.1 Oxford, Ashmolean 1884.604: CCA 7, pl. 19, no. 248; Lapithos 702.132 (now in Stockholm); P. Åstrom, Middle Cypriote Bronze Age. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition IV 1 B (Lund 1972) fig. 9.9; Lapithos Tomb 49, no. 117: H. Catling, Cypriot bronzework in the Mycenaean World (Oxford 1964) fig. 2.10.
2009.10.1.1 Probably after the fresco of Hercules and Omphale, first century AD, from Pompeii, now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
45.9.2 A nearly identical pair of vases (right as well as left foot) are in in the Gallatin Collection (now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art): CVA Gallatin IIIK pl. 62.11-12. Both are larger than the Reading example; the Gallatin left foot is from Olbia (ex Chmielowski Collection); it is also published in Chmielowski Sale Catalogue, American Art Association, February 23024, 1922 no. 74. Ure notes two similar vases from Chalkis published in ArchEph 1907, 82, fig. 16, which are in turn compared with two in the National Museum in Athens, inv. nos. 9734 and 9735. A further example, which is, however, shod in a pointed slipper, was found at Rhitsona, and is in Thebes 6140 (R.57.3): CVA Thebes 1, pl. 68.4-5 (citing further examples in New York and Hanover); K. Demakopoulou and D. Konsola, Archaeological Museum at Thebes. Guide (1981) 63.
47.7.1 Note that at least one bolsal has now been found in Athens: L. Parlama and N.C. Stampolidis, eds., The City beneath the City. Antiquities from the Metropolitan Railway Excavations (Athens 2000) nos. 211-12 (ill.).
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