Agora Object: P 32416
Inventory Number:   P 32416
Section Number:   ΒΖ 263
Conservation Number:   901
Title:   Black Figure Amphoriskos
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Complete except for a few small body fragments; mended from several fragments.
Disc foot with central depression and nipple. Scraped groove at lower juncture of foot and body. A zone of rays on lower body with two rows of dots/blobs above; figured zone above that, with a row of very debased tongues in black on shoulder. Neck has double ivy leaf pattern on one side, alternating palmettes on other. Flaring rim, flat on top; double round handles join below rim. Reserved: bottom and sides of foot, top of rim.
Decoration: Dionysiac figures very cursorily painted and incised, with added red and fugitive added white. On one side, a seated Dionysos on a diphros, facing right, wreathed and bearded, holding a kantharos in his right hand. Facing him (left) a draped female figure holding out one hand toward him. On other side, an almost identical figure of Dionysos, seated right. In front of him, a draped female figure moving right, away from him, looking back toward him, left hand holding up an indistinct object. Under one handle, another draped female figure moves right, under the other a satyr also moving right. Ivy tendrils in background. Attic clay.

D. von Bothmer: "Dot-band group" (August 1995). Shape : Agora XXIII, nos. 206-225: small late neck amphorae, ca. 500 B.C.
Context:   Well.
Notebook Page:   1929
Negatives:   95-66-35, 95-67-0, 95-67-1, 95-67-2, 95-67-3, 95-67-4, 95-67-5, 95-67-6, 95-61-9, 95-61-10, 95-61-11, 95-61-12
PD Number:   DA 13548
Dimensions:   Diam. (rim) 0.0865, (body) 0.010; H. 0.171
Material:   Ceramic
Date:   6 July 1995
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/6,7-2/19,20
Elevation:   46.00-45.90m.
Masl:   45.9-46m.
Deposit:   J 2:4
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 179, no. 3, fig. 21.
    Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 75, fig. 73.
    Hesperia 65 (1996), p. 248, no. 26, pl. 73.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 65 (1996)
Publication: Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011)
Drawing: DA 13548
Images (21)
Deposit: J 2:4
Card: P 32416
Card: P 32416