Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 389
Dimensions:   Max. p. dim. 7.5.
Chronology:   Ca. 200
Deposit:   H--K 12--14
Bibliography:   Schwabacher 1941, no. 1 d, p. 206.
Published Number:   AV 29.389
References:   Object: P 1498
Tritoness And Eros.

Bottom, with part of lower wall.

Cup rests on broad ridge with slightly concave surface; pointed underside. Six grooves preserved on exterior. Emblem surrounded by two scraped grooves with white dots between them; within this, ridge painted with radiating lines. Tritoness swimming left, carrying oinochoe in left hand and blowing shell held in right hand. Eros sits on her coils playing double pipe. Paint on oinochoe and shell, on hair, shoulder, neck, wrist, underside of coils, and fluke of Tritoness, on head, wing, arm, and pipes of Eros. Shiny black glaze outside, brown inside.

The motif is common on Attic moldmade bowls; cf. Hausmann 1959, pl. 4 and, from the Agora, P 18932, P 21040, P 22127 (Agora XXII, nos. 181--183, pp. 65--66, pl. 33 [C 20:2, H--K 12--14]). For similar compositions in other wares, see Pagenstecher 1909, no. 39, p. 43, fig. 19; Jentel 1976, pp. 325--327, 338--340, 369, figs. 170, 174--178, 195, pls. LIII, LV, LX; Richter 1959, p. 244, figs. 26, 28, pls. 54, 55; Courby 1922, no. 22, p. 239, fig. 40 on p. 239 = Carapanos 1878, no. 5, p. 111, pl. LXI:8.