Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1412 Chronology: | | Ca. 500 B.C. | Deposit: | | Q 7 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1412 | References: | | Object: P 24142
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Floor fragment with stem and start of foot plate. Glaze cracked at join of stem. Max. dim. 0.054; est. inner diam. of tondo 0.06.
I (illustrated), youth (feet, part of legs missing) sitting on the ground, playing the lyre (a little of the sound box and one arm). Around his hips is a himation; around his head is a woolen fillet. Next to his right calf, a narrow vertical object, a stick(?). Behind him:
Two reserved lines for tondo border. A, trace of figured decoration: a bit of drapery (end of himation[?]) and a fillet (on the ground[?]). Below, one reserved and one incised line. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze (very faint): muscles. Red: fillets; cord of plektron; inscriptions.
For the combination of a reserved line and an incised one, see 1411.
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