Agora Object: P 14629
Inventory Number:   P 14629
Section Number:   ΜΜ 440
Title:   Bell Krater Fragment
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Fragment from upper wall of bell krater; bit of reserved band below rim preserved. Parts of two figures remain, a youth, left, holding a large club and a woman facing him. He wears a white fillet and white hair ornaments; she holds out a string of beads as if to tie it around his head. White for her flesh, with yellow over-painting; no relief contour.
ADDENDA New description, including additional fragments.
A) Herakles crowned by Nike; Dionysos attended by a maenad.
B) Mantled male figure.
a) Upper part of Nike to r. wearing peplos and wreath; she is crowning Herakles with another wreath of the same kind.
b) Gives most of Dionysos seated left on a garment; thyrsos (head not preservd) held in the left hand. Very small part of the knee of a maenad rushing toward Dionysos and offering him a kantharos. Upper part of the pattern zone below the picture. The ground is indicated by wavy lines in white.
c) Rim fragment. Top of a head with curly hair, might belong to Dionysos.
d) Upper back half of a male figure to left; himation fillet. Part of the reserved band around the handle attachments.
White for Nike's flesh, wreaths, fillets, kantharos, wavy lines indicating the ground. No relief contour.
Context:   "Foundary Pit", N-S cut on 50m. line, area of Stoa, layer VII, with slag. Second quarter of 4th. c. B.C.
Notebook Page:   1062, 1223 ff.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.H. 0.057
Date:   10 March 1939
Section:   ΜΜ
Deposit:   E 2:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora XXX, no. 477, pl. 54.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 229, p. 210
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 394, p. 375
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 492
Image: 2000.01.1715 (Leica P 14629)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 477
Deposit: E 2:3
Notebook: ΜΜ-6
Notebook: ΜΜ-7
Notebook Page: ΜΜ-6-36 (pp. 1061-1062)
Notebook Page: ΜΜ-7-16 (pp. 1222-1223)
Notebook Page: ΜΜ-7-17 (pp. 1224-1225)
Card: P 14629
Card: P 14629