Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 418 Dimensions: | | H. 17.0; Diam. of body 15.6. | Chronology: | | 235-225 | Deposit: | | O 20:3, II | Published Number: | | AV 29.418 | References: | | Object: P 13432
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One handle, chips of rim, and part of body and neck restored.
Foot in three degrees; beveled resting surface. Offset at base of body. Rim nearly horizontal on top. Slave-mask reliefs at base of handle, with hair, eyebrows, and mouth trumpet painted. Neck: opposing ivy garland with two ribbons at ends. Main stem is two lines with white wavy line between them; leaves on stems alternate with rectangles of dots. Shoulder: checkerboard flanked by long panels of lattice. Painted circle around each handle attachment. Lustrous black glaze, reddish brown on one side and underneath.
Another fragment with lattice in this position: P 31745 (Agora XXVII, no. 214, p. 197, pl. 50 [Q 8--9]); for contemporary use of lattice see 238.
For similar shape and neck decoration cf. CVA, Kassel 2 [Germany 38], pl. 86 [1886]:1, 2.
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