Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1634 Dimensions: | | P.H. 2.7; Diam. of emblem 6.6. | Chronology: | | Context mostly of 200-150 | Deposit: | | C 20:2 | Published Number: | | AV 29.1634 | References: | | Object: P 15372
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Emblem Bowl.
Floor, most of foot, and part of lower wall preserved.
Cup rests on low ridge with raised disk within it; concave underneath.
On floor, two concentric raised disks with grasshopper facing right in relief. Hard, fine, slightly micaceous, gray fabric (10YR 5/1); grainy, shiny black glaze with voids in surface.
For a grasshopper on Pergamene appliqué ware see Bruneau 1991, no. 56 (110), p. 633. For similar emblems in silver cf. Oliver 1977, nos. 38, 39, p. 74. The motif also appears in a mosaic in the palace of Eumenes II at Pergamon (AvP V, i, p. 64, pls. XXXVI, XXXVII).
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