Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 602 Dimensions: | | Rest. H. 11.8; rest. Diam. of rim 28.4. | Chronology: | | 225-200 | Deposit: | | Q 8--9 | Bibliography: | | Agora XXVII, no. 211, p. 196, pl. 49. | | | G. R. Edwards 1956, p. 90, note 12 and p. 107, under no. 120 | | | Hausmann 1959, p. 110, note 128 and p. 130, note 401 | Published Number: | | AV 29.602 | References: | | Object: P 20188
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Several nonjoining sections, preserving one-fourth of rim, a few fragments of upper wall, one handle and half of the other; partially restored. Made in very fresh mold.
Scraped groove and ridge at top of moldmade area. Wall divided into two registers by ridge. Upper register: two-horse chariots driven to right. Lower register: cloaked figure facing right (Theseus wrestling with Marathonian bull), flanked by goat masks. Rim pattern: alternating rosettes and ribbed leaves; pairs of double spirals; cable; jeweling; ridge. Painted decoration inside and outside.
Outside, on rim: pairs of leaping dolphins spaced by branches; spiral wave pattern running right, filled in white below; two lines with row of dots between them. Inside, on rim: grapevine.
Main white wavy stem; leaves alternate with white dot rosettes.
Metallic black glaze; miltos.
Probably from Workshop A.
Theseus, probably from same stamp, occurs on fragments of two more kraters (P 19449, P 21042 [H--K 12--14]), on a moldmade amphora (455), and on moldmade bowls (e.g. P 10877 [Agora XXII, no. 189, p. 67, pl. 35, detail 3 (D 11:4, lower fill)]; G. R. Edwards 1956, no. 120, p. 107, pl. 50 [where other instances from the Agora are listed]). See also Agora XXII, pp. 23--24. Chariot similar (but not from same stamp) to that on P 401 (Agora XXII, no. 152, p. 62, pl. 78 [H 6:4]). For decoration inside rim cf. 601.
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