Etruscan orientalizing neck-amphora, produced in Ceverteri (Caere); the main image has a reference to the Argonauts: the Argonaut and as a warrior dressed singer Orpheus is playing for a weapon dance of younger Argonauts, the gargoyle to the right of his head indicates a sacred area, the neck image depicts a lion, in false interpreteation of the eastern Greek paintersthe so-called Kithara painter (<i>Pittore dell'Eptacordo</i>) shows the upper and lower jaw and the tongue again, but the eye is not located in the head, but over the tongue; about 470/60 BC; loan of Takuhito Fujita to the Antikensammlung Würzburg, inventory number ZA 66.
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