Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 587
Dimensions:   H. 15.0; Diam. of rim 32.9.
Chronology:   200-185
Deposit:   P 21:4
Published Number:   AV 29.587
References:   Object: P 28778
Parts of rim and wall restored.

Elaborately molded foot with scraped grooves between moldings; beveled resting surface, reserved; nippled underside. Low, broad bowl with two scraped grooves below rim. Rim flat on top, with scraped groove at inner and outer edge; projects inwardly and outwardly and slopes down slightly to outside. Elaborate bolster handles with three vertical grooves at center, two at ends, and plastic loop below with comic mask with square, curly beard in relief within it. Orange crosses on loop, vertical strokes on bolster, orange on eyebrows and hairline of mask; single grape leaves flank mask. Below rim: grapevine running right. Undulating white main stem (now nearly invisible); leaves on double stems alternate with rectangles of white dots. Pseudo bead and reel on top of rim. Metallic black glaze; miltos.

Two more masks, probably from same mold, on bolster handles: P 283, P 18328 (A--B 19--20:1). For foot cf. 598 and 599.

Similar grapevine: 832 and, less so, 1271.