Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 113 Dimensions: | | Diam. 2.9; Th. 1.2; H. of leaf 1.8. | Chronology: | | Ca. 325-200. | Deposit: | | H--K 12--14 | Bibliography: | | Agora XII, p. 123, note 71. | Published Number: | | AV 29.113 | References: | | Object: P 17087
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Intact.
Roughly circular mold for heart-shaped leaf. Leaf carved in leather-hard clay; tool marks are visible. Back roughly rounded.
Micaceous pink fabric (7.5YR 7/4).
Could have been used for any of the many shapes with ivy-leaf thumb rests: Classical or Hellenistic kantharos, bowl-kantharos, Corinthian skyphos.
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