Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 998 Chronology: | | Last quarter of the 5th century B.C. | Deposit: | | B 13:6 | Published Number: | | AV 30.998 | References: | | Object: P 8441
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Lower part of body of pyxis with start of tripartite foot. On underside of floor, two concentric circles with central dot. Glaze rather greenish on outside. P.H. 0.04; max. dim. 0.09. Roberts, Pyxis, p. 122, cat. no. 4, pl. 75:3.
Woman (lower drapery, feet) frontal, holding a scarf (ends), and Eros (legs) holding a scarf (ends), flying to right (both twice). In front of each Eros, spiral plant. Below the figures, tongue pattern with dots. White: fringe of scarves.
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