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Greek Lekythos or vessel for oil, c. 340 BC.
from Paestrum in southern Italy - Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.

Note: The decoration depicts a scene in the garden of the Hesperides and the serpent
Ladon being fed milk from a bowl held by a nymph. The serpent protected the
mythical apple tree and the apples of health and immortality plundered by
Hercules during his 12th. labor.

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