

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.
