Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 390
Dimensions:   Max. p. dim. 6.0.
Chronology:   125-75
Published Number:   AV 29.390
References:   Object: P 2972
Erotic Symplegma.

Bottom of cup preserved.

Recessed underside, convex with spiral. Probably conical profile, plain wall. Emblem within scraped groove and white zigzag. Standing male on left faces right, holds left leg of female figure at hip level. She leans back against ribbed, cylindrical leg of a kline. Large white dots on emblem. Metallic black glaze.

For a similar scene in Pergamene appliqué ware see PF II, E 23, E 28, p. 97, pl. 27. For erotic scenes as emblems see Courby 1922, no. 38, p. 248; AvP I, ii, no. 4, p. 277, Beiblatt 44:4; FdD V, no. 455, p. 179.