Agora Object: P 32870
Inventory Number:   P 32870
Section Number:   ΜΣ 1511
Conservation Number:   2081
Title:   Red Figure Chous or Oinochoe Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Single fragment of the upper body of a red-figured chous or oinochoe.
Depicted are a figure of a flute-player and a satyr-player, both only partially preserved. The former stands to the left: his face, left shoulder and upper torso, and left arm, are preserved. He is bearded and dressed in the characteristic long robe, decorated with spotted circles: in his left hand he holds two auloi. The actor stands to the right, and wears the characteristic drawers and phallus of a satyr player; his front torso, waist and upper left thigh are preserved, as are both arms. In his right hand the actor holds out a full satyr-head mask, shown in profile and facing towards him; his left arm is upraised.
Attic clay, well-refined and well-fired, with a wash of black slip on the (closed) interior.
For similar R-F depictions on Attic vases, see J.D. Beazley in Hesperia 24 (1955) 305-319, esp. 314 f. and pls. 86-88.
Ca. 440-420 B.C.
Context:   Middle stoa, under north aisle. "Lower trench." Fill over Archaic Road, basket 90N.
Notebook Page:   3387
Negatives:   98-25-33(31,32,34,35), 98-21-8, 98-21-9, 98-21-10
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.075; P.W. 0.058
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   23 June 1997
Section:   ΜΣ
Grid:   I/6-13/6,7
Basket:   90
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia 68 (1999), p. 257, no. 1, fig. 2.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 68 (1999)
Image: 2010.01.0002
Image: 2012.84.0577 (98-21-8)
Image: 2012.84.0741 (98-25-33)
Card: P 32870