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of love anddeath. At first it seems to be merely a graceful figure of sur-passing beauty. The graceful pitcher, however, has a meaningwhich a Greek would have been quick to recognize. The girlis one who bore water for a ceremonial lustration connected withthe Panathenaic festival, a ceremony which… … Fig. 114. — Grave Relief. Water Carrier. Ceramicus, Athens.
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