Agora Object: Agora XXIX, no. 1679 Dimensions: | | W. of rim 4.7; max. p. dim. 6.0. | Chronology: | | Context of 250-175 | Deposit: | | M 21:1 | Published Number: | | AV 29.1679 | References: | | Object: P 31865
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Bolster Krater: Pergamene.
Rim fragment.
Projecting rim, strongly convex on top. Top surface has pair of scraped grooves at either edge. At left, dolphin leaping right, with incised outline filled in with orange; at right, rosette with alternating orange and white petals. Hard, grainy, light red fabric (2.5YR 6/6) with black and white inclusions; shiny brown glaze.
Probably Pergamene. Closely similar in shape and decoration: AvP IX, p. 120, pl. 57:h:7; Ténos I, Ca6, p. 215, pls. 97, 116; D3, p. 219, pls. 100, 119; Ephesos IX, ii/ii, B 104, p. 51, pl. 49. For decoration cf. also Patsiada 1990, no. 163, p. 187, pl. 73:δ (Pergamene, mid-2nd century). For the shape see PF II, p. 48, fig. 2:5 and D 38, p. 61, pl. 14; Behr 1988, nos. 67, 70, 71, pp. 156--158, figs. 15, 16, pls. 16:5, 6 and 17:1.
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