Agora Object: P 24105
Inventory Number:   P 24105
Section Number:   ΣΑ 2405
Title:   Black Figure Lekythos
ΤΙΤΛΟΣ:   Λήκυθος του Ζωγράφου της Γέλας με παράσταση άνδρα που ανεβαίνει σε άρμα 500 π.Χ. περίπου
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from many pieces; a few small wall fragments missing. Deep bell mouth; neck inset from shoulder; sloping shoulder; thick ring at base of wall; elaborately profiled foot.
On shoulder, tongues and palmettes with dots (three and two); lotus buds next handle. Key right above picture; glazed line as ground line and a couple of red lines below at the top of the glazed wall.
Man mounting chariot, right; himation, greaves, wreath; he holds the reins with both hands and the goad in the right. Near the front legs of the horses and behind them walks a dog. In front of the team, a Doric column. White for the wreath and dots of himation, also patches on the third horse and a stripe on the belly of the dog.
Gela Painter.
Cf. the people and the dog on Haspels (1936), pl. 24, 2a (also the chariot and horses though not so completely). For the profile of the foot, cf. Haspels (1936), pl. 26,1, but the mouth differs. For the foot of this and of the fountain house lekythos (P 24106), cf. also Jacobsthal, O., pl. 54a (for the fountain house) and pl. 54b (for this piece).
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Μελανόμορφη λήκυθος του ζωγράφου της Γέλας, με παράσταση τεθρίππου με ηνίοχο και σκύλου, μπροστά εκ των οποίων διακρίνεται ένας δωρικός κίονας. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το σώμα του αγγείου.
Context:   Well beneath Stoa gutter, box 16.
Negatives:   Leica, LXIV-79, 80-47-23, 80-47-24, color slide
PD Number:   P 2630-72
Dimensions:   H. 0.33
Date:   2 June 1954
Section:   ΣΑ
Grid:   Q/7-12/15
Elevation:   -6.00m.
Masl:   -6m.
Deposit:   Q 12:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 28 (2022), pp. 15, 16, fig. 16.
    AgoraPicBk 28.gr (2022), pp. 15, 16, fig. 16.
    Monaco (2000), [A,XVIII,1], p. 185.
    Hesperia 55 (1986), pp. 36, 37, no. 101, fig. 25, pl. 10.
    Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 63, noted.
    ABV, p. 715.
    Agora XXIII, no. 870, pl. 79.
    Paralip., p. 7.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:Haspels (1936), pl. 24, 2a.
    Agora:Object:Haspels (1936), pl. 26,1,
References:   Publications (5)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 228, p. 212
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 365, p. 349
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 478
Drawing: PD 2630-72 (DA 8174)
Images (51)
Deposit: Q 12:3
Card: P 24105
Card: P 24105