Agora Object: Agora XII, no. 540 Chronology: | | Ca. 420 B.C. | Deposit: | | B 19:7 | Published Number: | | AV 12.540 | References: | | Object: P 17961
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Small. Flaring ring foot; concave lower part of wall. Reserved: underside with glazed band, two circles and dot. Incised on underside: ΦΙΛΟ.
There are a number of bolsals as small and smaller than this, and they exist in the 4th century, too; e.g. P 19298 B 18:4 Hesperia, XX, 1951, pl. 50 c (Pyre 3-3) and P 12701 O 18:2, heavy and clumsy, with grooved resting surface and black underside. For the titular miniature of the late 5th century, with red-figure, see Bologna 3699 (PU 349), noted above, p. 107, note 2.
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