Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 625
Chronology:   Ca. 450-440 B.C.
Deposit:   E 13:1
Published Number:   AV 30.625
References:   Object: P 5495
Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably all of the mouth, neck and handle, much of lower body, nearly all of ring base. Thin glaze on inside. Glaze pitted and flaked in many places. Rest. H. 0.225; rest. diam. of body 0.178. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 81, cat. no. 176, fig. 22; J.-L. Durand, Sacrifice et labour en Grèce ancienne: Essai d' anthropologie religieuse, Paris/Rome 1986, p. 117, fig. 37; Straten, Hierà Kalá , p. 233, cat. no. V 161.

Scene of Sacrifice. A nude youth (right forearm and hand, most of legs missing) walks to right, holding a kanoun on his outstretched left forearm. Behind him are part of a table with a spit leaning against it. Facing the youth is a man (part of wreathed head, right arm and leg, drapery). Between the two, upper right corner of an altar. Above, egg pattern (a little bit); below, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. Reserved line for side frame.

For the kanoun, see J. Schelp, Das Kanoun: Der griechische Opferkorb, esp. pp. 51--53 for the type on 625; also, J. Bazant, "The Sacrificial Basket in Vase Painting and Possible Persistence of Several Elements of Minoan-Mycenaean Religion in Classical Greece," Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologia 1, 1974, pp. 61--86.

The Zannoni Painter (ARV1 716, 6; ARV2 673, 8; Addenda 278).