On the left is Phaedra, seated on a four-legged cushioned stool to right, with downcast face her legs are crossed and her hands clasped on her right knee her feet rest on a footstool. The other wears earrings, double necklace, long transparent chiton, and shoes her hair rises in a mass over the forehead and falls on the shoulders. The first wears earrings, double necklace, bracelets, long chiton and apoptygma to hips with border of dots, and sandals her hair is gathered under a close cap. In front of it are two female attendants confronted the one on the left holds up a large white fan in right hand and extends left hand to the other, whose hands are placed behind her head. On the upper row: Phaedra's love-sickness: In the centre is a large couch, the legs inlaid with palmettes, and volutes and Gorgoneia above along the front, spirals and other patterns on the couch is a mattress with lozenge-pattern and an embroidered purple cushion at each end beneath it is a large low stool with inlaid patterns in white, yellow, and purple. Above the designs, laurel-wreath below, the vase is fluted. Apulian pottery red-figured calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns black on red ground, with accessories of purple, white, and yellow.
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