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Red-figure scroll krater
440-420 B.C.
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Inv. 81870
A youth crowned with grape leaves holds a stick, which he will lean on to help him home after having drunk too much. On his right is a great krater, symbol of the wine that will flow abundant during the banquet, and the figure of a woman playing the double flute.