Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 421
Dimensions:   H. 22.3; Diam. of body 18.4.
Chronology:   225-200
Deposit:   P 21:4
Bibliography:   Rotroff 1991, no. 49, p. 80, pl. 27.
Published Number:   AV 29.421
References:   Object: P 29344
Parts of body, neck, and rim restored; rim and foot chipped.

Foot in three degrees; flat resting surface. Offset at base of body. Two scraped grooves on shoulder; no groove below rim. Convex band flanked by scraped grooves halfway up neck, painted with small squares with white dots in centers. Rim horizontal on top. Strap handles with rotelles at arch. Ends of rotelles have asterisk with white around edge and white dot at center. On strap below rotelle: painted union jack; beardless relief head with eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and hair painted; spearhead necklace; spur with parallel painted lines. At base of handles, relief slave mask with orange paint on hair, eyes, eyebrow, and around mouth trumpet, white inside trumpet, on pupils, and on fillet that runs across brows and hangs down on either side of face. Opposing olive garland hangs from lower handle attachment, painted circle around upper attachment. Upper and lower handle attachments flanked by knobs painted with orange strokes.

Upper neck register: double cornucopia flanked by bunches of grapes and torches. Cornucopia painted white, with three leaves and two double hoops with white dot within them across top, and a frond hanging from either side. Bunches of grapes have three dotted tendrils and one leaf. White dots on torches and two white fillets hanging from either side. Lower neck register: two pairs of antithetical leaping dolphins; spiral wave pattern running right, filled in with white below; two lines with row of dots between them.

Shoulder: five alternating panels of checkerboard and concentric rectangles, with rectangles at center. Metallic black glaze; miltos.

Related to Dikeras Group.

For motifs see 77. For handles cf. Pagenstecher 1913, p. 20, pl. XII:1; Watzinger 1901, no. 1, p. 68, pl. III.