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# Long description

This photograph shows one side of a marble bell-shaped urn, lit from front left against a black background. A round fluted pedestal rises from a square base to support the inverted bell-shape, which has a fluted handle on either side and a raised acanthus leaf design around its base; a frieze represents a series of raised figures on the main body of the vase: from left to right: an athletic young man, facing right, stands with one foot raised on a block; then two young women are presented one above the other. The lower figure sits on the ground facing right, her head turned forward; her upper body is naked. The upper figure, smaller in scale, stands facing right in a diaphanous robe. The next figure is a partially naked and athletically proportioned young man facing left with his right arm bent so that his hand almost reaches his chin. A further figure is just visible on the left side of the urn.