Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1572 Chronology: | | Ca. 510 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 6:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1572 | References: | | Object: P 1274
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Mended with fragments restored in plaster and painted, notably parts of the lip. H. 0.055; diam. at rim 0.132; width with handles 0.18; diam. of tondo 0.057; diam. of foot 0.06. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 280, cat. no. 35, pl. 30; Beck, Album, pl. 66:340; S. Roberts, Hesperia 55, 1986, p. 8, fig. 5 (profile drawing).
I, youth reclining to left on a couch, playing kottabos. He holds a skyphos in his left hand and twirls the cup with his right. Around his hips and legs is a himation. At the foot of the couch is an object identified by Vanderpool as a kottabos stand but which looks more like a flute case with mouthpiece-box hanging on the wall. Reserved line for tondo border. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.
In the preliminary sketch, the youth held a cup instead of a skyphos. For the identification of the object as a kottabos stand, see Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 280, sub cat. nos. 35 and 37. For the subject, see B. Sparkes, "Kottabos: An Athenian After-Dinner Game," Archaeology 13, 1960, pp. 202--207; N. Hoesch in Kunst der Schale, pp. 272--275; more briefly, Oakley, Phiale Painter, p. 41.
Manner of the Euergides Painter: the Painter of Agora P 1275 (ARV2 one 67, V, 3); the Group of Acropolis 96 (ARV2 105, 3; Addenda 172).
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