Agora Object: PNP 244
Inventory Number:   PNP 244
Title:   Rim Fragments of a 'Double-Decker' Krater
Description:   Two rim fragments from a 'double decker' krater, shape as Louvre, Pottier, Album, III, G 529,530
Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: on a) a crane, right, between two pygmies the one at the left with a club right raised hand and other at the right, object between him and the crane is probably his dropped club (?); on b) a crane, right, grasping with his beak the outstretched, drapery covered arm of a pygmy.
No relief contour; white, with yellow details for parts of the cranes; glaze inside reddish brown; outside grey to black, poor, chipped.
Notes:   Hesp. 96, 2000 pg 656,5 #A5, fig 2.
G 529 and G530 (CV) III Ic, pl. 7-8; Schefold, Untersuchungen, nos. 136, 137.
Context:   Assembly Place, Filling of Period III.
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.10, b) 0.11; Diam. 0.44
Date:   1931
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 65, no. 318, pl. 9.
References:   Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956)
Image: 2007.01.1506
Image: 2007.01.1507
Image: 2007.01.1508
Card: PNP 244
Card: PNP 244