Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 302 | Dimensions: | | P.H. 15.0; rest. H. 17.7; Diam. of body 17.0, of rim 15.5. | | Chronology: | | 275-250 | | Deposit: | | N 18:3 | | Bibliography: | | Rotroff 1991, no. 61, p. 82, pl. 30. | | Published Number: | | AV 29.302 | | References: | | Object: P 9074
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Foot and lower part of body, one handle, and parts of upper body and rim restored.
Very high shoulder. Scraped groove at and below lower handle attachments. Concave neck. Flaring rim with flange below; scraped groove below flange. Handle with ivy-leaf thumb rest joins vessel at flange. Neck: two pairs of antithetical dolphins spaced by white dot rosettes; spiral wave pattern running right, filled in with white below; two lines with row of white dots below. Shoulder: grapevine running right, accented by rows of white dots along tendrils and larger white dots within curls of tendrils; between scraped grooves, band of alternating double hoops and leaves, with white dots inside hoops and three or four white dots above hoops; row of white dots. Handle strap: ivy garland running vertically. Metallic black glaze; miltos.
Related to Shark Group.
For hoop pattern cf. 136 and 315.
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