Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 833
Chronology:   Ca. 480-470 B.C.
Deposit:   N--O 7
Published Number:   AV 30.833
References:   Object: P 21284
Wall fragment. Max. dim. 0.03.

Discus decorated with an owl, surrounded by a circle of dots. At left, part of a figure or an object. Below, lines.

For the decoration on the discus, see these by the Bowdoin Painter: Athens, N.M. 17281 (ARV2 684, 145; Mind and Body, p. 163, cat. no 48); Cab. Méd. 487 (ARV2 684, 153; Addenda 279); and Lucerne Market (ARV2 684, 156). Surely by the Bowdoin Painter is the lekythos found in a tomb at Nea Kallikratia in Macedonia (Δελτ 30, 1975 [1983], pl. 165: γ). 833 is closest to the last.

For the owl on the discus in general, see J. D. Beazley, JHS 28, 1908 [ pp. 313--318], pp. 316--317, who says that on marble votive diskoi, these images would be incised and that the owl would signal good luck in the city of Athena.

The Bowdoin Painter (ARV2 684, 151).