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Sphinx moving right

Plate done with slightly pinky clay. Decoration painted in black color now slightly changed into a brown-red tonality. The lower half is decorated with an ornament, like cloves, painted long the rays of a half circle The upper half: a sphinx moving towards right; geometrical patterns filling the empty space between the main figure and the frame.

 

Ionic Rhodian black-figure plate

About 600-575 BC

From Kamiros

Paris, Musée du Louvre

 

 

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Uploaded on January 10, 2014
Taken on May 6, 2013