Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 769 Chronology: | | Early 4th century B.C. | Deposit: | | O 22:1 | Published Number: | | AV 30.769 | References: | | Object: P 14808
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Body fragment with shoulder and start of neck. Partly glazed on inside, dull, brownish black. Max. dim. 0.11. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 88, cat. no. 216, fig. 314; LIMC III, 1986, p. 461, no. 431.
Dionysos (filleted head, left arm, part of legs) dressed in a himation, seated to right on a panther, his left hand resting on its neck. All that remains of the feline is its head, neck, shoulder, and the start of one raised foreleg. At the right, Eros (from the waist up) to left, nude but for a fillet around his head. Added clay: fillets. Wings of Eros were once painted in added color (now lost). White: Eros.
For Dionysos on a panther, see LIMC III, 1986, p. 461, s.v. Dionysos (C. Gasparri).
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