A woman extends a bunched garment to a nude woman at right; Side B: A man extends a phiale

Pelike
96. Pelike
Washing Painter (Greek, Attic)
A woman extends a bunched garment to a nude woman at right; Side B: A man extends a phiale
Clay, red-figure, 440-425 BCE
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Photograph courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery
2008.136.4

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