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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 (Click the image for a full screen view)
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