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the fragment. The clay is flaked off at both edges of the hole (fig. 15). The visible fractures have a mostly smooth and even surface: they were probably trimmed. The hole is 3 mm in diameter. 15. Modern hole on the fragment of an Attic black-figure Little Master cup. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts *8. Attic black-figure lekythos (figs. 16. a-c) Inv. no. T.784. Haimon workshop.

70 Around 480-470 BC. H.: 14.8 cm. Unpublished. Restored: the neck and the lower part of the handle are completed with plaster. The body is damaged above one of the palmettes; the neck was broken. The body is straight and tapers downwards, the lip is cup-shaped. There is a double ray pattern on the shoulder. There are three palmettes standing on O-s on the body, alternating with leaf patterns.

71 Dots can be observed between the two incised lines bordering the bud of the palmettes. The details of the palmettes are incised. The dots are painted with added white. The leaves bordering the palmettes and the set of dots around the bud of the palmettes are missing; the black paint is rubbed off from the edge of both the foot and the lip and on the body in smaller spots. A copper wire 2 mm in diameter was led into the blind hole drilled into the plaster completion of the handle. It was joined to the blind hole drilled into the handle stub at the cup of the lekythos. The end of the wire was cut with a pair of cutters (fig. 16. c). The hole is 2 mm in diameter. 70 To this vase and its relationship with the Beldam workshop, see Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-Figured Lekythoi, Paris 1936,130-141, 170-191; Kurtz, D.C., Athenian White Lekythoi. Patterns and Painters, Oxford 1975, 150-155. 71 Cf. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, inv. no. 1940.148. Kurtz, op.cit. (n. 70) pi. 69, fig. 5.