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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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