Agora Object: P 13036
Inventory Number:   P 13036
Section Number:   ΟΑ 333
Title:   Black Figure Amphora
Category:   Pottery
Description:   One handle and nearly one-quarter of lip missing and chips; otherwise intact. Echinus foot; flaring lip, flat on top, offset from neck; eggy body with well marked shoulder; shoulder and neck form continuous concave curve; small rising rolled handles, lower neck to shoulder. Short rays above foot; two red bands around foot; one above rays, two below figured panel and two above, and one around neck. Top of lip reserved.
A) Brown ground line; dotted linked buds between bands, above. Youthful horseman riding right on a black horse, a white horse just visible along side. Behind him a runner, right, a short cloak decorated with two rosettes over his left arm. Left hand outstretched. White for the rider's sleeved short tunic, and for the dots of the rosettes, as well as for the far horse. Red for the horse's mane and a stripe on haunch and belly; for the runner's hair and the centers of the rosettes on his cloak. Tail of one horse red, of the other white.
B) Similar to A, but the runner is nearer the rider, and grasps his hair with the left hand. The runner's cloak has a broad red band and two dots and boy's hair is red. No dots in the band of buds. The runner's lower right foot and leg extend outside the panel, and are outlined by incision in the black of the wall.
Glaze rather dull and worn; incision coarse.
Context:   Well 6, container 9, middle fill.
Negatives:   Leica, 8-137, 8-180
PD Number:   Ptg. 139
Dimensions:   H. 0.222; Diam. 0.16
Date:   27 May 1938
Section:   ΟΑ
Elevation:   -7.5--7.5m.
Deposit:   U 25:2
Period:   Greek
Bibliography:   AgoraPicBk 24 (1998), p. 14, fig. 23.
    Hesperia 8 (1939), pp. 233-234, fig. 31.
    Agora XXIII, no. 69, pl. 8.
References:   Publication: Agora XXIII
Publication: AgoraPicBk 24 (1998)
Publication: Hesperia 8 (1939)
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 125, p. 109
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 361, p. 345
Publication Page: Agora 23, s. 407
Drawing: DA 10648
Image: 2012.27.0012 (8-137)
Image: 2012.27.0055 (8-180)
Image: 2010.18.0054 (8-137)
Deposit: U 25:2
Card: P 13036
Card: P 13036