Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 412 Dimensions: | | H. 23.0; Diam. of body 18.9. | Chronology: | | 260-250 | Deposit: | | A 18:1, lower fill | Published Number: | | AV 29.412 | References: | | Object: P 17978
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Half of one handle, most of rim, one-third of neck, and parts of body restored; foot chipped.
Outer face of foot partly reserved; beveled resting surface.
Scraped groove at junction of foot and body. Two scraped grooves at base of neck; no groove on shoulder. Scraped groove and very shallow glazed groove below rim. Neck: pair of antithetical leaping dolphins face missing central motif (vertical line flanked by white dot rosettes preserved); spiral wave pattern filled in white below; two lines with row of dots between them. Framed by vertical lines at sides. Shoulder: thymiaterion with broad base with two rows of dots across bottom, resting on two curved legs. Vertical rod with five volutes and leaves or flames on either side, flames across top. Body of thymiaterion painted white, white accents in volutes. At sides of shoulder, grapevine with leaves on dotted stems above and below, tendrils with white accents between them. Painted circle around each handle attachment. Lustrous brown-to-black glaze.
Small fragments with thymiaterion in this position: P 22956 (M--N 15:1 [1]), P 20184 (Rotroff 1991, no. 44, p. 78, fig. 9, pl. 25).
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