Agora Object: P 23896
Inventory Number:   P 23896
Section Number:   Τ 2835
Title:   Red Figure Chous
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Mended from several pieces. Large part of mouth and neck and smaller pieces from body missing. Handle broken and repaired in antiquity. Panel framed by a band of enclosed palmettes above, of chevrons at the sides and maeander and checkers below. In the panel: two Nikai on each side of a large tripod standing on a two-stepped base; fillets hang down from its top. The Nike at the left holds a lyre in her left hand, the other hand is akimbo. She wears a girdled peplos with long overfold, bracelet on both arms, necklace. The Nike at the right holds an untied wreath in her left hand; right hand raised. Girdled peplos with kolpos(?) bracelets, necklace, wreath. White for the fillet, wreath, bracelets and necklaces. Dilute glaze for shading in garments and large shining surfaces of tripod. Relief contour for faces, tripod, lyre.
Good glaze; buff-red clay. Underside of foot had a red wash of which only traces remain. Inside neck glazed; the rest of the inside covered with dilute glaze.
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ:   Ερυθρόμορφη χους τύπου ΙΙΙ. Λείπουν θραύσματα από το στόμιο, το λαιμό και το σώμα του αγγείου. Φέρει παράσταση από Νίκες και τρίποδες.
Context:   Well to north of Nymphaeum, Box 122.
Negatives:   Leica, LXX-27, LXX-28, LXX-29, 81-295, 85-97, 85-98, 85-99, color slide
Dimensions:   H. 0.218; Diam. 0.179
Chronology:   End 5th. c. B.C.
Date:   27 April 1954
Section:   Τ
Grid:   Τ:115/ΙΣΤ
Elevation:   -11.5--11.5m.
Masl:   -11.5m.
Deposit:   Q 15:2
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Museum Guide (2014), p. 166, fig. 103.
    LIMC VI (1992), p. 860, no. 115, pl. 570, s.v. Nike.
    Burn (1987), p. 109, no. MM 54.
    Guide (1976), p. 262.
    BCH Suppl. 1 (1973), p. 38, fig. 26 (part).
    BSA 66 (1971), p. 199, no. 1, pl. 30:b (part).
    Guide (1962), p. 176.
    Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 26, no. 81.
    Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 76, pl. 36b.
    ARV2, p. 1324, no. 40.
    Agora XXX, no. 656, pl. 70.
    Paralip., p. 364.
References:   Publications (4)
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Object: Agora XXX, no. 656
Deposit: Q 15:2
Card: P 23896
Card: P 23896