Agora Object: P 8445
Inventory Number:   P 8445
Section Number:   ΠΘ 2150
Title:   Red Figure Calyx Krater Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Ten fragments of rim and walls from a vase decorated in two zones. On the rim, slanting palmette scroll. Below, Dionysos and his followers, the head of Dionysos, left, filleted, preserved; and the right shoulder of one maenad; bits only of the other figures.
a) Rim fragment.
b) Head of Dionysos.
c) Kantharos of Dionysos.
d) Maenad with thyrsos.
e) Thyrsos with vine spray.
f) Arm with oinochoe.
g) Leg, vine and drinking horn.
h) Lower edge of rim, with trace of head beneath.
i) From near rim, with back of head(?).
j) From lower zone, egg pattern above, a cloaked figure left, looking right, and a tail tip.
Partial relief contours; added white for vine sprays. Careful work. Good glaze, that of fragment f) somewhat greenish.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 49, under no. 212.
ADDENDA P 8446 belongs with these fragments. P 7282i gives most of Satyr's legs. P 7282b joins P 8445f. P 7282c and d) give most of Dionysos' lower half. Fragments g) and j) belong to P 7282. Fragment i) does not belong.
Notes:   Three fragments of rim left in tray.
Context:   Well. Lower fill, late 5th. c.-early 4th. c.
Negatives:   Leica, V-71, XLVI-61, LVII-75, 86-9-26, 86-9-27, 86-9-28, 86-9-29, 86-9-35, 86-10-5, 86-10-6, 86-10-11, 87-31-22
Dimensions:   H. a) 0.08, b) 0.037, c) 0.024, d) 0.05, e) 0.034, f) 0.032, g) 0.031, h) 0.056, i) 0.036, j) 0.055; Est. Diam. 0.50
Date:   April-June 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:80/Ν
Elevation:   -20.28--20.28m.
Masl:   -20.28m.
Deposit:   B 13:6
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   ARV2, p. 1057, no. 100.
    Agora XXX, no. 287, pls. 38-39.
Published Type:   Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 49, under no. 212.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956)
Publication Pages (5)
Images (27)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 287
Deposit: B 13:6
Card: P 8445
Card: P 8445