Agora Object: P 2730
Inventory Number:   P 2730
Section Number:   Α 806
Title:   Black Figure Skyphos
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; restored in plaster. Inside, black glazed with a central reserved circular space decorated with dot and circle; the inner edge of the lip reserved.
Outside, beneath the edge of the rim, vine dot border; brown and black bands above and below the figured zone. The junction of foot and body, and ca. 0.027m. above it, reserved, and decorated with short rays, black to brown, between brown lines. The heavy ring foot squared on the outside, flaring beneath, black glazed, with the resting surface reserved. Within the foot, reserved; decorated with two concentric circles around central dot.
On each side six figures:
A. Left to right: Amazon attacking falling warrior; warrior attacking falling Amazon; two warriors, the first on horseback.
B. Amazon right; warrior left, looking right; Amazon attacking falling warrior; warrior, and Amazon, left.
White for the flesh of the Amazons; the crests of the helmets of all the figures and circle devices on all the shields; the cloak of the mounted warrior.
The legs of the Amazons are painted in black only as far as the knee. Below this, the white is added directly over the clay ground.
Orange wash.
Notes:   No. 420.
Context:   Rectangular rockcut shaft.
Negatives:   Leica, XXIII-19, LXIV-30
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.229; H. 0.208
Date:   August-September 1932
Section:   Α
Elevation:   -8.00m.
-7.40m.
Masl:   -12m.
Deposit:   G 6:3.1
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 15 (1946), no. 75, pl. 43.
    Agora XXIII, no. 1628, pl. 107.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: Hesperia 15 (1946)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 310, p. 294
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 356, p. 340
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 506
Image: 2012.54.0030 (LXIV-30)
Image: 2012.51.0782 (XXIII-19)
Image: 2010.18.0924 (XIII-19)
Deposit: G 6:3
Deposit: G 6:3.1
Notebook: Α-8
Notebook Page: Α-8-79 (pp. 1507-1508)
Card: P 2730
Card: P 2730