Agora Object: P 9346
Inventory Number:   P 9346
Section Number:   Χ 247
Title:   Red Figure Bell Krater Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Three fragments preserve part of rim and walls (both obverse and reverse) and one handle; five other non-joining fragments give part of base and bits of wall and rim.
Inside, firm black; a reserved line just below the rim and another lower down. Inside of handle, a band between the attachments and around them reserved; ivy wreath left on rim.
Dionysiac scene:
Obverse: Lower border, maeander broken by checkerboard squares. At the left, a female figure wearing a chiton with embroidered top and hem and a sakkos, over which is tied a wreath with white leaves and streamers, stretches out her arms, right. A white ribbon falls from her hands. Center, a nude male figure, seated right on drapery. Right, a nude male figure, right, a thyrsos in his left hand, looks back towards the seated figure. He wears a wreath and fillet, and a white cloak thrown over his left arm. A bit of white near the feet of the seated figure appears to be the other end of his cloak. White spirals in filed.
No relief contours. White freely used; with yellow overpainting and traces of pink wash.
Reverse: Cloaked figures; the head of one, only, preserved.
ADDENDA P 17994 joins, giving central figure of obverse, cf. JDB, letter of April 5, 1953.
Notes:   to -2.30m.
Context:   Well.
Negatives:   Leica, 84-526
Dimensions:   P.H. a) 0.185, b) 0.13, c) 0.09
Date:   10 March 1937
Section:   Χ
Grid:   Χ:69/ΟΒ
Elevation:   -2.30m.
Masl:   -2.3m.
Deposit:   M 20:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora XXX, no. 503, pl. 55.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 232, p. 213
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 392, p. 373
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 493
Image: 2012.57.0466 (84-526)
Image: 2000.01.1730 (Leica P 9346)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 503
Deposit: M 20:3
Notebook: Χ-2
Notebook: Χ-3
Notebook Page: Χ-2-68 (pp. 326-327)
Notebook Page: Χ-3-96 (pp. 582-583)
Card: P 9346
Card: P 9346