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Fragment of a Red-Figure Kylix: Youth Facing Right
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Head, shoulders, right arm and hand of a beardless youth facing right. Rim of a kylix. Probably palaestra scene.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Bought in Orvieto in 1906.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University; deposited by Professor J. M. Paton
Title: Fragment of a Red-Figure Kylix: Youth Facing Right
Description:
Head, shoulders, right arm and hand of a beardless youth facing right.
Rim of a kylix.
Probably palaestra scene.
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