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Among the Archaic East Greek centres of manufacture not yet precisely located, there is one which was given the provisional appellation «South Ionia 3» within the Lyon data bank. The products of this uncertain centre, mainly distributed on Pontic settlements, consist of fruit-stands decorated in the Wild Goat style, as well as Ionian cups of Villard B1 shape, Ionian eye bowls and banded ware, including distinctive precursors of the Hellenistic fish-plates. The fact that the Wild Goat style of the fruit-stands and some other shapes seems clearly under strong Milesian influence with some Aeolian elements points to a marginal location, within the limits of Eastern Greece, somewhere in the Straits, presumably on some Milesian foundation as Abydos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]