Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1696 | Dimensions: | | P.H. 6.2; Diam. 12.3. | | Chronology: | | Context of 300-275 | | Deposit: | | E 29:4 | | Published Number: | | AV 29.1696 | | References: | | Object: P 27186
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Calyx-cup.
Upper body, bottom, and some relief attachments missing; lower body partly restored.
Two glazed grooves at top of lower body; below this, alternating applied satyr heads and lozenges, all of the latter broken away.
Satyrs have full beards, snub noses, high foreheads. Very hard, red fabric (10R 5/6); smooth, shiny black-to-green glaze, thin on upper part of lower body inside.
For lozenges on the lower body cf. Paphos III, no. 18, p. 9, fig. II, pl. VI:7; Adriani 1952a, no. 6, p. 10, fig. 21:21 on p. 26, pl. IV:1; Pfrommer 1987, KaB A 2, p. 213, pl. 45:d (Alexandria); and, in faïence, Wallis 1898, p. 52, fig. 110.
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