Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 637
Chronology:   Ca. 425 B.C.
Deposit:   G 12:21
Published Number:   AV 30.637
References:   Object: P 5270
Lower part of body, all of ring base. Streaky brownish black glaze on inside. Glaze on outside brownish in places. Dent on right altar. P.H. 0.122; diam. of base 0.125. L. Talcott, AJA 49, 1945, p. 526, fig. 1; Choes and Anthesteria, p. 81, cat. no. 174, fig. 50; Straten, Hierà Kalá , p. 244, cat. no. V 273.

Man (from about the waist down) moving to right, holding a wreathed chous in his right hand and carrying a kanoun on his left forearm as well as a drinking horn (its end overlaps his himation, its rim appears between the horns of the kanoun). He approaches a statue of Dionysos Limnais (lower part) that is standing on a base that has an egg pattern with dots decorating its top molding. Next, another man (from the hips down) stands before an altar (lower left half with start of top molding [not illustrated]). At the break there are a few lines that look like leaves of a wreath. Each wears a himation. Below the figures, a stopped-maeander pattern with checkerboard-squares. Thin reserved line for side frames. White (partly flaked): statue; drinking horn.

For the identification of the statue as Dionysos Limnais, see L. Talcott, AJA 49, 1945, pp. 526--527; for the subject, see also G. Neumann, "Dionysos ἐν Λιμναι'ς ," in Στη'λη , pp. 615--617. The same subject appears on a well-preserved contemporary oinochoe found in a grave on Lykourgos Street (Δελτ 20, 1965 [1967], pl. 56: γ). For the kanoun, cf. 366 and 625.