Veiled women dancing to a double flute

Column krater
69. Column krater
Eupolis Painter (Greek, Attic)
Veiled women dancing to a double flute
Clay, red-figure, 450-440 BCE
Purchase with the Nancy Everett Dwight Fund
Photograph Petegorsky/Gipe
MH 1913.1.B.SII

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