Inventory Number: | P 7585 | |
Section Number: | ΠΘ 1393 | |
Title: | Red Figure Cup Fragments: Type B | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Description: | Decorated with scenes representing the adventures of Theseus, outside, in the medallion, and on the interior wall around the medallion. Four fragments, two from rim and wall, and two from floor. a) Rim fragment: inside: a white-wreathed youth right, swings a double axe held in both hands, behind his head. Traces of an object in front of him. Behind him, the white-filleted head of a youth left, beneath a curved object, clasped at the extreme left by a hand. Outside: a youth facing front, looking right, holds a short club in his right hand, stretched out behind him, and grasps with his left hand a bearded man who swings a rock in both his hands. Another personage or object at the extreme left. A white wreath for the youth; a fillet for his opponent. b) Inside: the Minotaur, looking left, hurling a rock with both hands; the arm of an antagonist grasps at his head. Outside: the Marathonian bull(?) left, and the cloak of his opponent, covering an outstretched arm. c) A bit of the medallion, a single reserved line only preserved outside. Inside, maeander border; two legs of an animal, right, and the end of a tail. d) Two legs and part of another foot(?) outside, above a reserved line. Inside, part of the maeander border, with some object inside; and outside the border the tip of a toe, left. Coarse work, no contours; a few brown details. | |
Context: | Mixed fill. | |
Negatives: | Leica | |
Dimensions: | Est. Diam. (rim) 0.225 | |
Date: | 28 April 1936 | |
Section: | ΠΘ | |
Grid: | ΠΘ:91-94/ΚΑ-ΚΒ | |
Period: | Greek | |
Bibliography: | Brommer (1960), p. 162, no. 17, and pp. 184, 187, 188, 190, 195. | |
RivIstArch 8 (1959), p. 109, no. 17. | ||
Agora XXX, no. 1472, pl. 138. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXX Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 347, p. 328 Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 392, p. 373 Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 576 Images (6) Object: Agora XXX, no. 1472 Card: P 7585 Card: P 7585 |