Agora Object: P 9275
Inventory Number:   P 9275
Section Number:   Φ 97
Title:   Black Figure Stand: Inscribed
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; most of the lip, about half the base and scattered fragments of the figured scenes missing. A cylindrical stand, open at top and bottom, with a rather concave profile and simple slightly projecting rim and base.
Interior: horizontal stripes, alternately black and reserved, varying from ca. 0.01 to 0.02 in width, widest towards the middle.
Exterior: above and below, black rosettes with white centers. The figured scene completely encircles the vase and is separated from the rosettes by two black lines.
Artemis, right, wearing a long himation, mounts a chariot drawn by four horses which stand beside a palm tree. In front of the horses and facing them stands Apollo in long chiton and himation, holding a seven-stringed lyre (strings incised) in his left hand and a flower in his raised right. Behind Apollo a young deer, left, stands under a second palm tree. The deer and Artemis are back to back.
In the field, nonsense inscriptions in glaze: above the backs of the horses, horizontally, Ο Ι Ε; between their legs, vertically, Ο Ρ Ε Ι Ο; between them and Apollo, vertically, Ο Ι Ε Ε Ο Γ [cf. AJA 33 (1929), pp. 361-362, all of which, however, belong to the mid-sixth century].
The added colors are well preserved. White is used for Artemis' flesh; for one of the horses and for decorations on the harness of another; for Apollo's wreath, the frame of his lyre, the visible lower part of his long chiton, and the dots along its lower border; for the throat, chest, belly stripe and tail of the deer; for the hearts of the two palm trees; and for the dots of the rosettes in the borders above and below. Red is used for Artemis' fillet; for crosses and folds on her himation; for four bosses on the chariot car; for the reins; for the tails and manes of the white horse and the nearest black one; for some of the harness; for dots and folds on Apollo's himation; and for the outer edge of the lip of the pot.
Notes:   Exhibition Russia, Moscow Nov. 2016 - Feb. 2017.
Context:   Big well.
Negatives:   Leica, 7-165, 7-166, 7-305, 7-322, color slide
PD Number:   Ptg. 127, Ptg. 140
Dimensions:   Diam. ca. 0.13; H. 0.134
Date:   1 March 1937
Section:   Φ
Grid:   Φ:61/ΙΖ
Elevation:   Ca. -1.50m.
Masl:   -1.5m.
Deposit:   M 17:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Lynch (2007), p. 197, figs. 169A, B.
    AgoraPicBk 19 (1980), fig. 14.
    AgoraPicBk 8 (1963), fig. 38.
    Hesperia 7 (1938), p. 342, figs. 24, 25.
    AJA 41 (1937), p. 180, fig. 4.
    ILN (11 September 1937), p. 432, figs. 19, 20.
    Agora XXIII, no. 575, pl. 55.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:AJA 33 (1929), pp. 361-362.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 190, p. 174
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 360, p. 344
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 454
Report: 1937 Φ
Report Page: 1937 Φ, s. 6
Drawing: DA 12666
Drawing: DA 12977
Images (13)
Deposit: M 17:4
Notebook: Φ-2
Notebook Pages (6)
Card: P 9275
Card: P 9275