Agora Object: P 32417
Inventory Number:   P 32417
Section Number:   ΒΖ 264
Title:   Red Figure Cup: Type C
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from several fragments; complete except for part of rim and bowl. Right leg of figure missing.
Plain rim. Torus foot, concave at upper edge, rising within. Thick stem with fillet at juncture with foot, offset with two scraped grooves. Broad bowl, plain lip, two canted horseshoe handles. Reserved: center of cone within, resting surface, outer face of foot, scraped grooves on stem, inside of handles and handle panels. Good black glaze. Shape close to Agora XII, no. 420, 500-480 B.C.
cf. also P 32420.
Decoration: Tondo within defined by a thin reserved line. Within tondo a youth moves rapidly to the right, holding in each outstretched hand a long strip, perhaps a strip of meat. Legs are seen in profile, abdomen in three-quarters view, and chest frontal. Head turned back toward the left, seen in profile. A piece of drapery is knotted at the waist and hangs down a short way, leaving the genitals exposed. Short hair; almond eye closed at both ends, with a solid dot for the pupil.
Fully glazed line for main details of torso and folds of drapery. Dilute glaze for nipples, muscles of abdomen, and area of ribs. No details for legs or feet except toes of right foot. Added red on the two long strips, which have curving ends at top. Ghost image of painted inscription clockwise from the head of the youth:
D. von Bothmer, August 1995: close to Skythes.
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   1929
Negatives:   96-18-15, 96-16-32, 95-66-16(17,18,19), 98-14-2, 88-698
PD Number:   PD 2770-3, DA 13549
Dimensions:   Diam. 0.192; H. 0.07; W. 0.255
Date:   6 July 1995
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/6,7-2/19,20
Elevation:   46.00-45.90m.
Masl:   45.9-46m.
Deposit:   J 2:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 232, no. 90, ills. 1, 4, fig. 87.
    Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 75, figs. 73, 74.
    Hesperia 65 (1996), p. 248, no. 29, fig. 8, pl. 74.
Published Type:   Agora XII, no. 420.
    P 32420
References:   Publication: Agora XII
Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011)
Report: 1995 Excavations
Drawing: DA 13549
Images (19)
Deposit: J 2:4
Card: P 32417
Card: P 32417