Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 366
Chronology:   Ca. 430-420 B.C.
Deposit:   B 13:6
Published Number:   AV 30.366
References:   Object: P 8444
Wall fragment with start of rim, mended and strengthened with plaster. On the far right, start of handle. Reserved line on inside at top. Glaze misfired reddish and greenish in places. P.H. 0.22; max. dim. 0.256.

Sacrifice. At the far left, hand of someone holding something, probably an aulos, then Dionysos (top of head missing) standing to right, wearing a himation, a wreath around his head, and holding his kantharos in his lowered right hand, his left raised slightly, acknowledging the youth standing frontally, wreathed head turned toward the god. The youth wears a himation, and in his hand he holds a trefoil oinochoe. Before him is an altar, which overlaps his legs. Then comes the last figure, Apollo (himation, right forearm and hand) to left, holding a laurel staff. The narrow horizontal object in front of him is a kanoun held by the youth with the oinochoe, for his fingers appear at the break just to the right of the plaster filling. On rim, laurel wreath (part of one leaf) to left. At handle, tongue pattern. Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. Preliminary sketch.

For the kanoun in general, see J. Schelp, Das Kanoun: Der griechische Opferkorb (Beiträge zur Archäologie 8), Würzburg 1975; for the type on 366, cf. pp. 51--53. See also 625.