Agora Object: P 270
Inventory Number:   P 270
Section Number:   Δ 104
Title:   Black Figure Lekanis Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Fragment comes from a large vase at a point where the body makes a sharp curve; wall tapers toward bottom. Preserved, most of a siren, facing left, with crude simplified rosettes. On the creamy-orange ground, the siren is painted in heavy, rather lustrous glaze, shading from bright orange to black. Purple paint is added over this glaze in a patch on the tail, and along the back of the head and the front of the curling wing. The feet and front part of body and head are missing. Details of feathers on wings and tail, and of hair (at edge of break) are added by incision. below the figure, three narrow bands of orange glaze and two crude rosettes, one with cross incision. Above, another rosette, also incised. At the right edge of the fragment, a curved line of orange glaze.
Attic clay; inside, heavy glaze shading from red to brown, with two added purple stripes.
Attic Animal-Frieze Style.
Cf. Pfuhl (1923): pl. 20, no. 91 for the siren. This illustration suggests that the curving band at the right edge of this fragment may belong to the tail of a sphinx.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.L. 0.09; P.W. 0.05; Th. 0.003-0.006
Date:   24 February 1932
Section:   Δ
Grid:   Δ:20/Ζ
Elevation:   60.50m.
Masl:   60.5m.
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 13 (1944), p. 57, no. 42.
    ABV, p. 46, no. 63. The Polos painter.
    Agora XXIII, no. 1311, pl. 92.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Pfuhl (1923): pl. 20, no. 91.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: Hesperia 13 (1944)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 275, p. 259
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 353, p. 337
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 491
Image: 2010.18.0772 (Leica P 270)
Notebook: Δ-1
Notebook Page: Δ-1-74 (pp. 139-140)
Card: P 270
Card: P 270