Agora Object: P 21859
Inventory Number:   P 21859
Section Number:   Σ 2606
Title:   Red Figure Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   About one-quarter missing, mostly from lower part of body and foot; restored in plaster.
A) King looking right, right arm outstretched; scepter in left hand; woman running right, looking back left. White for fillets on both figures. Relief contour for forehead, throat and neck of each figure, also the king's left wrist and hand, and his scepter.
B) Woman running right, looking back left. Relief contour for right forearm, throat and neck (possibly left forearm, nose and forehead; surfaces are worn).
Below each figured scene, stopped maeander punctuated by cross squares; tongues at the base of each handle. The glaze is much worn and chipped around rim and neck of reverse. The interior is thinly coated with brownish glaze.
Boreas Painter.
Context:   Well, boxes 21-29.
Negatives:   Leica, L-40, L-41, 84-684, 84-685
Dimensions:   Rest. H. 0.60; Diam. 0.44, (mouth) 0.315
Date:   May-June 1951
Section:   Σ
Grid:   Σ:45/Θ
Elevation:   -10--10m.
Masl:   -10m.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Prange (1989), p. 133, under no. 109.
    Archaeology 10 (1957), p. 191.
    Hesperia 22 (1953), pl. 21, no. 1.
    ARV2, p. 539, no. 41, Boreas P.
    Agora XXX, no. 4, pl. 2.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication: Hesperia 22 (1953)
Publication Pages (5)
Images (5)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 4
Deposit: N 7:3
Card: P 21859
Card: P 21859