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Object: P 17087
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Hellenistic Pottery and Wheelmade Table Ware | Drinking Cups | Classical Kantharos And Related Shapes | Kantharos: Special Handles | Mold For Thumb Rest
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Object: Agora XXIX, no. 113
Dimensions:   Diam. 2.9; Th. 1.2; H. of leaf 1.8.
Chronology:   Ca. 325-200.
Deposit:   H--K 12--14
Bibliography:   Agora XII, p. 123, note 71.
Published Number:   AV 29.113
References:   Object: P 17087
Intact.

Roughly circular mold for heart-shaped leaf. Leaf carved in leather-hard clay; tool marks are visible. Back roughly rounded.

Micaceous pink fabric (7.5YR 7/4).

Could have been used for any of the many shapes with ivy-leaf thumb rests: Classical or Hellenistic kantharos, bowl-kantharos, Corinthian skyphos.