Agora Object: P 32420
Inventory Number:   P 32420
Section Number:   ΒΖ 267
Conservation Number:   935
Title:   Red Figure Cup: Type C
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete except for parts of rim and bowl; mended from many sherds.
Plain rim. Torus foot, concave at upper edge, rising within. Thick stem with rounded fillet at juncture of foot and stem, offset with two scraped grooves. Broad bowl, plain lip, canted horseshoe handles. Reserved: center of cone within, resting surface, outer face of foot, scraped grooves on stem, inside of handles and handle panels. Good black glaze. Shape close to Agora XII, no. 420, 500-480 B.C.
Cf. also P 32417.
Decoration: tondo within defined by a thin reserved line. Within tondo a bearded male figure moves right, with a skyphos held in his outstretched right hand. Figure crouches slightly, to fit tondo, and is seen in profile. He is nude except for mantle draped over left shoulder and hanging down behind. Almond-shaped eye with iris drawn around a dotted pupil; ears and hair also detailed. Thin solid lines and very dilute glaze used for anatomical detail. Added red for wreath around head and for letters which run clockwise around figure: <graphic>
Attic clay.
D. von Bothmer (August 1995): close to Skythes.
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   1929
Negatives:   96-18-16, 96-16-31, 95-66-23(20,21,22), 98-14-1, 88-698
PD Number:   PD 2770-3, DA 13553
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.192; H. 0.071; W. 0.256
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   6 July 1995
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/6,7-2/19,20
Elevation:   46.00-45.60m.
Masl:   45.6-46m.
Deposit:   J 2:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 230, no. 89, ills. 1, 3, fig. 86.
    Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 75, fig. 74.
    Hesperia 65 (1996), p. 248, no. 28, fig. 8, pl. 74.
Published Type:   Agora XII, no. 420.
    P 32417
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011)
Report: 1995 Excavations
Drawing: DA 13553
Images (19)
Deposit: J 2:4
Card: P 32420
Card: P 32420