Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1577 Chronology: | | Ca. 510 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 6:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1577 | References: | | Object: P 1330
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Floor fragment with stem and start of foot. Two incised lines on stem. P.H. 0.035; max. dim. 0.097; est. diam. of tondo 0.10. E. Vanderpool, Hesperia 15, 1946, p. 281, cat. no. 38, pl. 29.
I, youth (most of legs, right forearm and hand missing) to right, perhaps a discus thrower, the discus held in his right hand (now missing). Around his head is a fillet. Reserved line for tondo border. Inscribed:
theIis opposite his left forearm; theΠ to the left of his hand. In front of his head:
Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Red: fillet; inscription.
For the discus, see 1566. The figure on 1577 may have looked something like these: the one by Oltos, only reversed, on Vatican, Astarita 46 (ARV2 55, 19; Addenda 163); the one in the tondo of Boston, M.F.A. 01.8020 by Onesimos (ARV2 321, 22; Paralip. 359, 22; Addenda 215).
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