Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 408 | Dimensions: | | P.H. 11.5; Diam. of body 17.1. | | Chronology: | | 275-250 | | Deposit: | | H 16:3, drawshaft (Group B) | | Bibliography: | | H. A. Thompson 1934, B 35, pp. 341--342, fig. 22 | | | | Rotroff 1991, no. 8, p. 69, fig. 3, pl. 15. | | Published Number: | | AV 29.408 | | References: | | Object: P 505
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Half of rim, one-fourth of neck, and three-fourths of shoulder restored; lower body and handles missing.
Neck: grapevine running right. Straight main stem; leaves on stems alternate with bunches of grapes with dotted tendrils.
Shoulder: three pairs of antithetical leaping dolphins spaced by white dot rosettes; spiral wave pattern running right, filled in with white below; two lines with row of dots between them.
Lustrous black to reddish brown glaze with metallic patches.
Bracket Leaf Group.
For pieces with similar decoration see 89. Certainly an amphora; trace of scar of second handle preserved.
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