Inventory Number: | P 1254 | |
Section Number: | Α 308 | |
Title: | Black Figure Lekythos | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Four non-joining fragments; base missing and large pieces from the walls; neck and handle with most of shoulder preserved. Restored in plaster. On the shoulder two ivy leaves and a palmette; on b) the lower part of a cloaked standing figure with a staff. On c) two figures: to the left a warrior, back and most of legs missing, raising his left knee to put on the greave which he holds in his outstretched hands; to the right a fragment of a draped figure who holds out toward the warrior a shield and two spears(?). The shield rim incised with compass lines, its emblem a dolphin; below it, two straight strokes. Incision for the interior details of the figures; no remains of accessory color save that the dolphin shows black against the surface of the shield where the glaze has grayed in firing (once white?). ADDENDA Shoulder decoration is the same as in the Group of Vatican G. 52 (Paralip. p. 203). | |
Context: | Rectangular rockcut shaft. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 7-546 | |
Dimensions: | Diam. 0.051, (lip) 0.033; Rest. H. 0.138 | |
Date: | August-September 1932 | |
Section: | Α | |
Elevation: | -13.50m. | |
Masl: | -20--12m. | |
Deposit: | G 6:3.2 | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 399, no. 34, fig. 36. | |
Agora XXIII, no. 815. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXIII Publication: Hesperia 7 (1938) Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 221, p. 205 Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 354, p. 338 Image: 2012.26.0278 (7-546) Deposit: G 6:3 Deposit: G 6:3.2 Notebook: Α-8 Notebook Page: Α-8-11 (pp. 1369-1370) Card: P 1254 |