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Bronze Banqueter
Bronze figure of symposiast, ca. 520 B.C., from Dodona, in the British Museum (museum number 1954,1018.1, asset number 34835001):
See D.E.L. Haynes, "A Bronze Banqueter,"
British Museum Quarterly 20.2 (September, 1955) 36-37, and John Boardman, Greek Art, rev. ed. (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985), pp. 102, 104 (fig. 101).
