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There are 3 objects for which Decoration contains → kline
2014.3.1 Fragment exterior/ convex side: female lyre player (left), draped and reclining in a Symposium context. The lyre-player's face is executed in added white, as is the lyre. There is an ivy branch behind her. On the right, the beginnings of another robed figure and their kline appear. Drapery and lyre strings incised. Fragment interior/ concave side: completely black.
45.10.6 SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED MAN (?) RECLINING ON KLINE, YOUTH, WOMEN, ONE DANCING, ONE PLAYING PIPES, TABLE WITH FOOD
REDMG:1953.25.25 Reserved neck; band of black vertical bars above a band of black rays on shoulder, extending to carination. Body: maeander to right (only at front), between two pairs of black lines; figural scene (front only); black band; black to foot and on top of foot, and top half of vertical surface of foot; otherwise reserved. Figural scene is of four seated figures, seemingly two women profile to right, the second playing a lyre, face a man reclining in 3/4-view to left on a kline (couch), with another female figure, profile to left, at his right. Dotted branches extend from the male figure (perhaps Dionysos) on either side. Added white for female flesh (faces) and fruit; incisions for drapery and fillets.
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