Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 333
Dimensions:   H. 5.2; Diam. 17.2.
Chronology:   280-260
Deposit:   I 17:5
Bibliography:   ILN, June 25, 1932, pp. 1062--1063, fig. 7
    C. W. Lunsingh Scheurleer 1936, p. 155
    Forti 1965, p. 29, pl. V b
    Rotroff 1988b, pp. 516--521, figs. 1, 2
    Rotroff 1991, no. 53, p. 81, pl. 29.
    Shear 1933b, p. 26
Published Number:   AV 29.333
References:   Object: P 747
Small parts of wall and rim restored.

Cup rests on ridge, underside concave with raised disk.

Shallow body, with broad, shallow grooves on exterior from foot to just below rim, getting shallower near rim. Scraped grooves below rim, around center of floor, and at half height of wall form three decorative areas. Emblem: head of Ptolemy turned to viewer's right, wearing kausia, with two curved locks of hair over right ear.

Thick neck, heavy brows, large, deep-set eyes. White line above roll of kausia. Inner register: pairs of antithetical leaping dolphins spaced by bunches of grapes; spiral wave pattern running right, filled in with white below; two orange lines with row of dots between them. Outer register: ivy garland with orange leaves on individual stems and undulating, discontinuous white main stem. Lustrous black glaze.

Ptolemy Group.

Cf. 376 for similar emblem but with head turned to viewer's left. For shape cf. Braun 1970, no. 85, p. 140, fig. 2, pl. 56:5.