Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1566 Chronology: | | Ca. 500 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 6:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1566 | References: | | Object: P 2698
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Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably part of lip, bowl, and one handle, much of foot. Coral-red on outside of bowl, stem, and top surface of foot as well as all of inside around the tondo. H. 0.10; diam. at rim 0.22; diam. of tondo 0.089; est. diam. of foot 0.095. T. L. Shear, Art and Archaeology 34, 1933, p. 294; T. L. Shear, Hesperia 2, 1933, p. 460, fig. 9; E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 285, cat. no. 52, pl. 35; S. Roberts, Hesperia 55, 1986, p. 11, fig. 6 (profile drawing).
I, diskobolos at just the moment before the throw, his right foot well off the ground. Behind him:
Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Red (partly flaked):inscription.
For the use of coral-red, see 1403. For the discus-throwing event, see I. Diskou, ed., Athletics in Ancient Greece: Ancient Olympia at the Olympic Games, Athens 1976, pp. 188--195, more briefly, Mind and Body, pp. 99--100.
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