Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1634
Dimensions:   P.H. 2.7; Diam. of emblem 6.6.
Chronology:   Context mostly of 200-150
Deposit:   C 20:2
Published Number:   AV 29.1634
References:   Object: P 15372
Emblem Bowl.

Floor, most of foot, and part of lower wall preserved.

Cup rests on low ridge with raised disk within it; concave underneath.

On floor, two concentric raised disks with grasshopper facing right in relief. Hard, fine, slightly micaceous, gray fabric (10YR 5/1); grainy, shiny black glaze with voids in surface.

For a grasshopper on Pergamene appliqué ware see Bruneau 1991, no. 56 (110), p. 633. For similar emblems in silver cf. Oliver 1977, nos. 38, 39, p. 74. The motif also appears in a mosaic in the palace of Eumenes II at Pergamon (AvP V, i, p. 64, pls. XXXVI, XXXVII).