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Object: P 11234
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Hellenistic Pottery and Wheelmade Table Ware | Drinking Cups | Hellenistic Kantharos | Baggy | Large
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Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 235
Dimensions:   H. 12.7; Diam. of body 12.7, of rim 11.7.
Chronology:   250-225
Deposit:   B 13:7, bottom fill
Bibliography:   Webster 1960, C 11 b, p. 283, pl. 68
    Webster 1969, p. 56, under AV 4.
Published Number:   AV 29.235
References:   Object: P 11234
Parts of body restored.

Broad, beveled resting surface; pointed underside. Body horizontally faceted. Comic-mask thumb rests: slave with wide mouth trumpet and slightly pointed beard. Wreath flanked by branches and pairs of knotted fillets. Stem of wreath overpainted white, two white fillets hanging down at center. Branches placed diagonally with tops toward center; two white fillets hang from either side. Shiny-to-dull black glaze, brown below stacking line on one side.

Similar mask on 236 and P 16238 (Rotroff 1990a, p. 177, pl. 24:3, upper left [N 21:4, lower fill]).