Agora Object: P 1257
Inventory Number:   P 1257
Section Number:   Α 311
Title:   Black Figure Pyxis: Corinthian Type
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many fragments. Of the cylindrical handles, only attachment areas preserved. About two-thirds of the lip complete. Chips from base and gaps in body of vase. Surface badly worn especially on main scene where most of the picture shows only by its relief from the unprotected reserved portions around it.
The decoration is in two reserved panels, the upper part of each an animal zone.
A) Herakles in a chariot, driving a pair of centaurs. He is beardless with projecting nose and chin, and wears the lion skin over his head, knotted in front, and belted, the tail hanging down behind. In his right hand he brandishes his club, in his left he appears to hold reins which pass round the centaurs' human waists. His sword hangs from his left side. The centaurs are barely seen as two. They have equine forelegs, all raised in a prance. Their right arms reach back to the reins, their left are lifted forward. They look forward; features very dim. Incision for interior details; sometimes well preserved when the glaze is mostly gone, e.g. on the wavy tail.
Above on the narrow band which just touches Herakles's head, two animals difficult to discern: on the left a lion(?) walking toward center, his head apparently turned back; on the right a bull(?) with lowered head (a long horn crossing the forequarters of the lion), sunk on one knee; the line of his back and hindquarters close to the base of the vase neck.
B) Conversation scene of standing figures in chiton and himation. There are two couples with a fifth looking toward the four from the right side of the picture; he holds a fillet as does the one in front of him. Much more of the surface is preserved on this side, including a great deal of added red in broad vertical bands on the garments of the figures and over the heads of the three to the left (hair or cloak). The glaze has flaked away from the incision lines so that most of them are rather broad and jagged.
Above the heads of these figures a narrow glaze band on which stand three water birds, the central one with spread wings. In the field, filling ornament including irregular blob star crossed with incision. Red on the wings of the birds.
Cf. Metzger (1951), p. 218, n. 1.
Context:   Rectangular rockcut shaft.
Negatives:   Leica, 87-29-7, 87-29-8, 3-94, 3-253, 4-177, 8-17
PD Number:   Ptg. 40, Ptg. 125
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.143, (lip) 0.072, (base) 0.092
Date:   August-September 1932
Section:   Α
Elevation:   -12.00m.
-12.40m.
-13.10m.
-14.00m.
-15.10m.
Masl:   -20--12m.
Deposit:   G 6:3.2
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Lynch (2007), p. 184, figs. 159-160.
    Brommer (1960), p. 66.
    Brommer (1956), p. 47, no. A 1.
    Matz (1955), Festschrift C. Weickert,p. 43, fig. 1.
    Hesperia 7 (1938), pp. 393 f., 407 ff., no. 31, figs. 31-33.
    AA 48 (1933), col. 203, fig. 4.
    Art and Archaeology 34 (November-December 1933), p. 293.
    Hesperia 2 (1933), p. 458 f., fig. 7.
    ILN (26 August 1933), pp. 327-328.
    Agora XXIII, no. 1266.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Metzger (1951), p. 218, n. 1.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: Hesperia 2 (1933)
Publication: Hesperia 7 (1938)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 270, p. 254
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 354, p. 338
Drawing: DA 10519
Drawing: DA 10598
Images (8)
Deposit: G 6:3
Deposit: G 6:3.2
Notebook: Α-8
Notebook Page: Α-8-11 (pp. 1369-1370)
Card: P 1257
Card: P 1257
Card: P 1257