Agora Object: P 21352
Inventory Number:   P 21352
Section Number:   Σ 2358
Title:   Red Figure Bell Krater Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Many fragments, giving essential parts of the walls but nothing of the foot. On each side, four figures grouped in twos.
A) Warrior to left holding shield in the left hand; Attic helmet, chiton, corselet. Facing him stands a youth wearing laurel wreath in his long hair; chiton, himation; at his left a laurel tree. Then the tops of the heads of two facing women, the one at the right crowned; between them a small Eros flying towards the one at the left. The representation was probably of deities, which one can name as Ares, Apollo, Aphrodite and Hera or Artemis.
B) Four figures grouped in twos: two women facing each other; a man, hand extended facing a woman. Some object hanging between them. Part also of the handle ornament is preserved. Above the picture leaf-wreath; below the picture stopped maeander. Tongues around the handles. Inside, glaze fired light red, the outer surface peeling.
Pink clay.
ADDENDA 25 June 1951. Mme Galli suggests that the scene shows Menelaos with Apollo facing him then Helen, fleeing to the right, toward whom flutters Eros, sent by Aphrodite (furthest right). For Apollo in such scenes of Menelaos and Helen, she cites the following parallels: Volute krater, Bologna 269, Niobid Painter, ARV, p. 418. Cup, Siena, School of the Penthesilea Painter, ARV, p. 626, no. 31. Hydria, Rome, Torlonia, group of Polygnotos, ARV, p. 702, bottom.
Context:   Well, boxes 31, 66, 80, 20, 40, 59, 63, 64, 65, 70, 71, 73.
Negatives:   Leica, 85-82, 85-91, 87-41-2, 87-41-3, 91-23-6, 91-23-7, 91-23-19, 91-23-21
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. (rim) 0.50
Date:   25 May 1951
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:45/Θ
Elevation:   -10--10m.
Masl:   -10m.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Prange (1989), no. GN 26, p. 210.
    Brommer (1960), p. 295.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pl. 23.
    ARV2, p. 609, no. 12.
    Agora XXX, no. 303, fig. 20, pl. 41.
    Paralip., p. 268.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953)
Publication Pages (5)
Images (10)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 303
Deposit: N 7:3
Card: P 21352
Card: P 21352
Card: P 21352