Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1403
Chronology:   Ca. 510 B.C.
Deposit:   G 6:3
Published Number:   AV 30.1403
References:   Object: P 1265
Five non-joining lip, bowl, and floor fragments. Coral-red around tondo on inside and on outside below figures. Est. diam. at rim 0.25; max. dim. a) 0.048, b) 0.022, c) 0.031, d) 0.019, e) 0.06. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 279, cat. no. 32, pl. 29; M. Lang, Graffiti in the Agora (Picture Book 14), Princeton 1988, p. 10, fig. 22; Agora XXI, p. 8, cat. no. B 2, pl. 2.

I, nothing of the figures preserved. A, athletes (boxers[?]). Fragment a preserves a youth (wreathed head in profile to right, back, part of left arm, most of right) seen from the back. Fragment b shows the thighs of someone moving swiftly to right; fragment c gives the left calf and the foot of a youth and the toes of the right foot of one facing. Below, reserved line. Fragment d preserves part of the neck and chest, the left forearm and hand of a youth moving to right, looking back. Fragment e (not illustrated) is undecorated. Graffito incised on inside of a after firing. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Red: wreath.

For the use of coral-red, see B. Cohen, "Observations on Coral-Red," Marsyas 15, 1970--1971, pp. 1--12; also the statement from G. Richter to L. Talcott in E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, pp. 285--287 sub cat. no. 52.

Connected with the Chelis Group (ARV2 one 83, 5); Not far from the Kachrylion Cup, London, B.M. 97.10--28.2 (ARV2 115).