Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 716
Chronology:   Late 5th century B.C.
Deposit:   G 18:1 (U)
Published Number:   AV 30.716
References:   Object: P 15210
Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably most of the mouth and handle. Glaze misfired reddish brown on back; abraded on inside of handle at join of neck. H. 0.181; diam. 0.141. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 90, cat. no. 227, fig. 19; T. B. L. Webster, Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens, London 1956, pl. 2; C. Mattusch, "Casting Techniques of Greek Bronze Sculpture: Foundries and Foundry Remains from the Athenian Agora with Reference to Other Ancient Sources" (diss. Univ. of North Carolina 1975), pl. 4:a; C. Mattusch, Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 20), Princeton 1982, cover; W. A. Oddy and J. Swaddling, "Illustrations of Metalworking Furnaces on Greek Vases," in Furnaces and Smelting Technology in Antiquity, P. T. Craddock and M. J. Hughes, eds. (British Museum Occasional Paper no. 48, 1985) [ pp. 43--57], p. 54, fig. 4; C. Mattusch, Greek Bronze Statuary: From the Beginnings through the Fifth Century B.C., Ithaca/London 1988, p. 233, fig. A:20; Straten, Hierà Kalá , p. 244, cat. no. V 274.

Two grotesque males, a small one to right who is carrying a kanoun and wearing a himation, which is wrapped round his waist, facing a taller one who is wearing a long chiton decorated with stars. The first is without a beard; the second has a long, scraggly one. The forehead of each is bald. Behind the second man, at the right, is a tall cylindrical furnace with a hooded stoking hole at the base and a crucible on top that has a stepped lid and a ring handle. On the ground between them, an object that looks like a pile of flat stones, perhaps an anvil(?). Above and below the figures, egg pattern with dots. Reserved line for side frames.

For the kanoun, see 366 and 625.