Agora Object: P 7585
Inventory Number:   P 7585
Section Number:   ΠΘ 1393
Title:   Red Figure Cup Fragments: Type B
Category:   Pottery
Description:   Decorated with scenes representing the adventures of Theseus, outside, in the medallion, and on the interior wall around the medallion. Four fragments, two from rim and wall, and two from floor.
a) Rim fragment: inside: a white-wreathed youth right, swings a double axe held in both hands, behind his head. Traces of an object in front of him. Behind him, the white-filleted head of a youth left, beneath a curved object, clasped at the extreme left by a hand. Outside: a youth facing front, looking right, holds a short club in his right hand, stretched out behind him, and grasps with his left hand a bearded man who swings a rock in both his hands. Another personage or object at the extreme left. A white wreath for the youth; a fillet for his opponent.
b) Inside: the Minotaur, looking left, hurling a rock with both hands; the arm of an antagonist grasps at his head. Outside: the Marathonian bull(?) left, and the cloak of his opponent, covering an outstretched arm.
c) A bit of the medallion, a single reserved line only preserved outside. Inside, maeander border; two legs of an animal, right, and the end of a tail.
d) Two legs and part of another foot(?) outside, above a reserved line. Inside, part of the maeander border, with some object inside; and outside the border the tip of a toe, left.
Coarse work, no contours; a few brown details.
Context:   Mixed fill.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   Est. Diam. (rim) 0.225
Date:   28 April 1936
Section:   ΠΘ
Grid:   ΠΘ:91-94/ΚΑ-ΚΒ
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   Brommer (1960), p. 162, no. 17, and pp. 184, 187, 188, 190, 195.
    RivIstArch 8 (1959), p. 109, no. 17.
    Agora XXX, no. 1472, pl. 138.
References:   Publication: Agora XXX
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 347, p. 328
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 392, p. 373
Publication Page: Agora 30, s. 576
Images (6)
Object: Agora XXX, no. 1472
Card: P 7585
Card: P 7585