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Taranto (Italy)
3rd Century BC
Found in Ruvo (Italy)
Terracotta, matt polychromy
Janze legacy in 1865
De Ridder.899
The monstrous Scylla attacks ships that venture into the strait of Messina, such as that of Ulysses. In the figurative tradition, Scylla is a young woman whose hips gives rise to the forebodies of ferocious dogs.