Agora Object: P 3853
Inventory Number:   P 3853
Section Number:   Β 807
Title:   Black Figure Cup Fragments
Category:   Pottery
Description:   (See revision below under ADDENDA.)
Mended from many fragments which make up into two principal groups. These two groups include all the figured fragments, save two, and even these can be assigned with some assurance one to each group. The remaining fragments (in all 12, making up to 8) include a bit of a handle, a bit of a rim, a bit of plain black, and numerous bits on which the narrow reserved band below the decorated band appears.
Group a), profile from rim to stem complete. Trace of handle attachment at extreme right. On the reserved handle zone, the central figure is missing. On either side of it, four figures move inward: two draped standing women (the nearer one on the right, nearly entirely missing); a nude, striding man with cloak on left arm; and, next to the palmettes, a draped standing woman (the one on the left nearly entirely missing, but part of her and most of the palmettes on the non-joining fragment). Red for the men's hair; the central dot of the rosettes on their cloaks (and the rosettes on the grment of the woman at the extreme right); for the borders of garments, and for the heart and alternate leaves of the palmettes. White for the dot petals of the rosettes, for the decoration on garments, especially as the dividing line between red and black, and about the heart of the palmette. Incision. Below the handle zone a narrow reserved band. Within: part of a large reserved circle at center and a narrow reserved band at rim.
Group b), preserved from rim to narrow reserved band below the handle zone. At center, left of fragment, a sea monster right, with head and shoulders of a man and body of a serpent (the body broken away at left). In his left hand he brandishes a dolphin. Before him a nude man, fleeing. At right the lower parts of a draped standing figure left and a palmette. A non-joining fragment which perhaps belongs at the left end of this group gives the feet and lower part of the garment of a figure standing (left?) and the bare leg of a figure fleeing left. Incision; red and white as in group a); white also for the monster's feet.
ADDENDA One handle and numerous fragments from wall are missing. A deep cup, with lip slightly flaring.
Interior: reserved medallion with dot and circle in middle, a reserved band around the lip. Exterior: a narrow reserved band around lower wall. A broad figured handle band. Between handle palmettes on either side, a group of five: in the middle a monster with human foreparts and fishy hind parts flourishes a fish in outstretched hand. On either side of him a nude male figure flees toward a standing draped male. Hasty incision; applied white and purple paint.
Notes:   "It is now clear that P 3853 (Β 807) as described in 1933 includes pieces of three cups. We may reserve this number for the cup of the sea-monsters; the other two cups are Β 1911, Β 1912."
Context:   Tholos, trench along south side of cellar. Additional fragments "in the cellar cut" inside the Tholos, layer IV of the west part, i.e. in the sandy layer immediately above bedrock.
Notebook Page:   2219, 2415
Negatives:   Leica, 81-102, 81-103
Dimensions:   H. 0.125; Diam. 0.207
Date:   8 May 1934, 1937
Section:   Β
Deposit:   G 11:5
Lot:   Lot Β 4
    Lot Β 457
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Agora XXIII, no. 1697, pl. 111.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 317, p. 301
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 357, p. 341
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 510
Image: 2012.55.0899 (81-102)
Image: 2012.55.0900 (81-103)
Image: 2010.18.0975 (81-102)
Deposit: G 11:5
Lot: Β 4
Lot: Β 457
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