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    Worshipping Athena
    On this fragmentary lecythus we are shown not only the musicians, victim, kanephoros, branch-bearer, and filleted column, but also a flaming altar and the deity beyond it, in this case a striding Athena.
    Attic black-figure lecythus (c. 500 BCE)
    Athens, National Museum 2298

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