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[Agora Object] P 2741: Black Figure Oinochoe Fragment

Mended from many pieces; none of edge of base preserved and most of back, with handle, missing. The right edge of the figured panel remains, but not the left. Band of dotted zigzags at base of neck; row ... August-September 1932 ... ABV, p. 608, no. 4 (P. Rhodes Pelike).

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[Agora Object] P 1406: Olpe Fragments with Dipinto

The pieces come from the neck and shoulder; b) and c) join. Above a narrow black band, three painted letters preserved. a) b) For the shape, cf. P 1210. The unglazed surface is grayed and darkened (from ... August-September 1932 ... Paralip., p. 193 (Class of Rhodes 6595).

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[Agora Object] P 28402: Brazier Lug: Bearded Head

Upper left corner chipped. Moulded bearded face wearing pointed cap. Coarse brown clay with bits. Catalogued 26 January 1971. Bought in Rhodes in 1933. Leica, 93-64-9 ... (26 January 1971) ... Bought in Rhodes in 1933.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1470

Rounded rim flat on top; around neck below rim, several wheelrun grooves; strap handles; raised base, flat beneath. Light buff clay, smooth creamy surfacing. Non-Attic. Possibly a small simplified version ... Context ca. 500-480 B.C ... Possibly a small simplified version of the Fikellura shape as, e.g., Rhodes 13354: Cl. Rh., IV, pp. 151-152, figs. 149-150 (Grave 56-1); CVA Rhodes 1(9) pl. 1(417) 1-2 but without the well-defined articulation between neck and shoulder.

[Agora Object] P 12538: Black Glaze Oinochoe

Intact. Flat bottom; ovoid body; trefoil mouth; handle round in section. Dull black glaze that stops a little short of the base. ADDENDA Noted in Rhodes, Camiros, tomb 149, no. 13179, another very similar ... 28 April 1938 ... ADDENDA Noted in Rhodes, Camiros, tomb 149, no. 13179, another very similar.

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[Agora Object] P 28401: Brazier Lug: Bull Head

Chipped. Inner face of lug has moulded head of bull, well modeled. Outer face has rectangular depression outlined with deep groove; vertical projection with dentils, below. Coarse micaceous red clay, ... (26 January 1971) ... Bought in Rhodes in 1933.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1409

Handle missing. Basket. A basket handle was attached inside the pot. Flat bottom; outturned rim. Two bands of glaze on body, small strokes on the rim. Thin glaze wash inside. Cf. 1412. The type: ABV ... 500-480 B.C ... Another, Rhodes 12305: Cl. Rh., IV, p. 263, fig. 287, second from right (Grave 132).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1559

Small convex lid with deep downturned rim, the knob an inverted cone. Glaze wash on top and on knob, a narrow reserved and banded zone near the top. Probably for a small pot of storage-bin shape; see ... Context ca. 430-410 B.C ... Probably for a small pot of storage-bin shape; see the banded example, complete with its jar, Rhodes 14164: Cl. Rh., VI-VII, p. 447, fig. 1, upper right (Grave X-6).

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1174

Fragment of top side and side. Thin brownish black glaze on inside; dull on outside, brownish in places. Max. dim. 0.072. Panther (half of head, end of tail missing) to right with left foreleg raised ... Late 5th or early 4th century B.C ... For the panther, cf. Rhodes 14137 (Clara Rhodos 7, 1932--1933, p. 446, fig. 2) and Toledo 76.72 (above, 1173).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1493

Upper part only, no direct join between the neck and shoulder fragments. Collar rim; tall narrow neck; double-curved handles from well below rim. Sandy buff clay with remains of banding in thin brown ... Context early 5th c. B.C. (?) ... For the shape and the shoulder banding cf. Rhodes, from Makri Langoni (Kameiros) 13277: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1663

Fusiform body on flaring base slightly concave beneath. Thickened lip with rounded outer profile; heavy strap handle. Highly micaceous reddish fabric, very thick and heavy; unglazed. East Greek. Young ... Context ca. 550-525 B.C ... Young (Hesperia, XX, 1951, p. 92) compared similar lekythoi from Sardis and from Samos; others come from graves in Rhodes. For the shape in Corinth see Corinth, XIII, North Cemetery, pl. 32, Grave 219-2 and -4; Grave 220-2 and -3.

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[Agora Object] P 16790: Black Glaze Olpe with Dipinto

Bottom and lower part of body restored in plaster. Round mouth, rather slender body, vertical handle. On exterior, dull, rather flaky black glaze; traces of two lines in added red around body just below ... 2-4 July 1932 ... Class of Rhodes 6595. (See under P 1406), Oinochoai (olpai).

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 246

Shoulder fragment with start of handle at top. Max. dim. 0.08. Head of woman (hair with sakkos) to left. At top, next to start of handle, a bit of reserve that may indicate the beginning of a pattern ... Ca. 410-400 B.C ... For the hair and headdress, see the figure of Aphrodite on the hydria in Rhodes, which shows a bridal scene (ARV2 1335, 31; Addenda 365).

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1788

Small Jug? Two-thirds of lower body preserved. Lower body probably moldmade. Slightly recessed underside surrounded by low ridge. On body, convex long petals, with groove at base, ridge and row of beading ... Context of 200 to late 1st century ... Somewhat similar stamping is found on a black-glazed feeder from Rhodes (ClRh IV, 1931, no. 3, p. 385, fig. 435).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1469

Squat body on low ring foot; short very wide neck, slightly flaring rim, thick strap handles. Hard purplish pink clay; remains of dull black glaze outside and on rim and neck in- side. Added red on lip, ... Context ca. 625-570 B.C ... Similar shape but somewhat more squat and without the red lines, Rhodes 10788, from Ialysos: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1705

Upper part. Tall-necked jug; round mouth with lightly collared rim, double-rolled handle from below rim. Neck set off from sloping shoulder by light ridge; around shoulder, at line of lower handle-attachment, ... Context ca. 520-490 B.C ... Cf. also the gray-ware amphora with double-rolled handles from Rhodes, 10479: Cl. Rh., III, p. 164, fig. 156, center.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1497

Upper part only. Broad projecting rim with sharp handle-ridge below it; tall wide neck set off from shoulder by light ridge; sloping shoulder; strap handles. Light reddish buff clay with pale buff slip ... Context ca. 425-400 B.C ... A shape common in Rhodes throughout the 5th century, with minor variations; see, e.g., for an example with un- usually broad rim, Leipsic 3305: CVA 1(14) pl. 50(690) 4, with references to examples from Ialysos; other examples from Ialysos, cf.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 247

Handle missing. Flaring foot, concave beneath. Reserved: the upper part of the body and a band at the greatest circumference. Added red: a broad band in the reserved band, a band at the edge of the foot, ... 575-550 B.C ... Two closely similar jugs have been found outside Athens and are doubtless from the same workshop: Rhodes 6595, from Ialysos: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1684

Plate. Part of floor and foot. Ring foot; beveled resting surface; slightly pointed underside. Band of glaze around edge of underside, glazed circle at center. On floor, red-glazed circle at center, ... 2nd-century context ... For painted decoration on banded vessels see Corinth VII, iii, no. 127, p. 39, pl. 45; FdD V, i, no. 400, pp. 173--174, fig. 728, from a 3rd-century context at Delphi; Giannikouri, Patsiada, and Philimonos 1990, pp. 182--183, pls. 100--102 (Rhodes); Behr 1988, no. 100, p. 174, fig. 22, pl. 18:1 (Pergamon).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 612

Handles missing. Moulded ring foot. Concave lip; ribbed wall, joined by arcs at the top. Reserved: underside with band, three circles and dot. Scraped groove at junction of foot and wall. Decoration inside: ... Ca. 420 B.C ... Naples inv. 212: CVA 2(22) pl. 19(1041) 1. 6. Rhodes 14034: Cl. Rh., VI-VII, p. 159, fig. 187, upper left (Grave LV-2).

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1474

Handles restored; preserved only at the attachments. Thick body on flaring ring foot; heavy rolled rim with a groove and a sharp ridge below it. Slightly gritty red clay with some fine mica, neatly self-surfaced ... Context ca. 490-450 B.C ... For the double rim cf. p. 188, note 8 and see Rhodes, from Makri Langoni (Kameiros) 13339: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1673

Hemispherical Cup: Pergamene? Three-fourths missing. Slightly recessed underside. Two grooves at bottom of wall, two just below half height. Rim beveled to inside, with scraped groove below. Scraped ... Context of ca. 225-150 ... XXI; AvP IX, p. 120, pl. 59:c:1 (Pergamon); PF II, D 2, D 6, p. 59, pls. 10, 11 (Pergamon); Anderson 1954, nos. 244, 245, p. 153, pl. 11:b (Chios, from deposit of ca. 275--225); Patsiada 1990, no. 17, pp. 149--150, fig. 6, pl. 52:β (Pergamene, from Rhodes); Ognenova 1960, p. 230, fig. 9 (Mesambria).

[Agora Object] P 16507: Amphora Fragment

Mended from many pieces, but substantially complete to the edge of the shoulder; filled out in plaster; a few non-joining fragments from the wall are in storage. Sharply sloping shoulder set off from the ... May, June 1939 ... P 13687 and CVA Leipzig 1, pl. 50, 4, called 5th. century, with earlier refs. to examples in Rhodes.

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[Agora Object] P 13429: Olpe: Inscribed

Neck, handle and much of back wall missing. Flat bottom; gently rounding sides. Above, on the shoulder, painted in the glaze, the ligature delta-epsilon. Pinkish-buff clay. Glazed. Neck glazed inside; ... 8 June 1938 ... Paralip., p. 193, class of Rhodes 6595.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1725

Ring askos, the sides rounding over into large central opening; saucer mouth; spout tilted back against handle. Buff slip or surfacing; good black glaze on rim, inside and out, on top of handle and for ... Context ca. 520-490 B.C ... Apollonia 1947- 1949, pls. 60-61; from Istria: Materiale, IV, 1957, p. 60, fig. 41 and Histria, II, pl. 74 (Grave I, 1); Materiale, VII, 1960, p. 276, fig. 3; from Kerch: Otchët, 1898 (1901), p. 18, fig. 17; from Rhodes, a pair in a burial of the first quarter of the 5th century: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1269

Spreading ring foot on short fat stem. Steep wall; thin jutting ledge at top of wall. Convex lid with acorn knob. Reserved: resting surface and center of cone beneath, outer edge of foot, outer face of ... 500-480 B.C ... Ferrara, from Spina T 72D VP. Rhodes inv. 10774: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1498

Broad projecting rim with handle-ridge below it; tall wide neck, rounded shoulder, strap handles. Fine somewhat sandy buff clay, thin fabric; reddish brown glaze on rim inside and out, over the tops of ... Context ca. 350-325 B.C. (?) ... The shape is found in Rhodes in contexts of the early 5th century, e.g. from Ialysos: Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XII, no. 1726

Domed askos. Low ring foot, broad plain-rimmed spout; strap handle concave in section; around lip a wheelrun groove, another partway down the spout and a pair around top of wall. Pinkish clay, gray at ... Context ca. 500-480 B.C ... Similar, but the decoration a rough two-petalled flower, P 20793 R 12:1. From Rhodes, of bronze, Cl.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1528

Rim and three-fourths of body restored. Low foot; curved resting surface; nearly flat underside with spiral marks. Upper and lower body of equal height, both slightly curved. Smooth transition to neck ... Late 2nd to early 1st century? (3rd-century context,disturbed) ... For other lagynoi of this same general shape and decoration see Kaltsas 1990, no. 13, p. 12, pl. 14:η (Pylos); Délos XXVII, D 110, p. 252, pl. 45 and Zapheiropoulou and Hatzidakis 1994, pp. 244--245, pl. 199:α (Delos, in late-2nd- to early-1st-century contexts); Priene, no. 19, p. 401, fig. 539:2 on p. 422 (with different mouth); Giannikouri, Patsiada, and Philimonos 1990, p. 175, pl. 90:d (Rhodes); BCH 90, 1966, p. 335, fig. 89:b (Cyprus); Paphos III, series 6, nos. 16, 17, pp. 20--21, figs.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 592

Shoulder fragment. Background glaze fired gray. Max. dim. 0.058. Youth (filleted head) to right. In front of him, the top of an unintelligible object. Behind him, at the break, the end of a contour line ... Ca. 470 B.C ... GR 1920.3--15.3 (ARV2 571, 79; Addenda 271); San Simeon, Hearst State Monument 9933 (ARV2 571, 81); and Rhodes 13261 (ARV2 571, 82).

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1509

Fragment of shoulder. Shoulder slightly convex. Decoration in brown glaze: broad band at angle with two narrow bands above; tendrils of ivy(?) garland on shoulder. Hard, friable, light red fabric (2.5YR ... XXXVIII (Olbia); PF II, F 21--F 23, p. 114, fig. 6:1--3, pl. 43 (Pergamon); Giannikouri, Patsiada, and Philimonos 1990, p. 176, pl. 90:α, β (Rhodes); Antioch IV, i, p. 28, fig. 8:17, 19, 20; SwCyprusExp IV, iii, figs. 23:1, 28:9, BCH 84, 1960, pp. 294--295, fig. 71, BCH 101, 1976, p. 857, fig. 33, BCH 108, 1946, pp. 952--953, fig. 152, and BCH 109, 1985, no. 11, p. 900, fig. 12 (all from Cyprus); CVA, Mainz 2 [Germany 43], p. 79, pl. 39 [2096]:5 (probably from Cyprus); CVA, Brussels 3 [Belgium 3], pl. 2 [140]:13 (Cyrenaica); Kokkou-Buridi 1982, no. 108, p. 55, fig. 7, pl.

[Agora Object] Agora XXIX, no. 1775

Medicine Bottle. Handle and half of neck and mouth missing. Flat base with string marks. Irregular, barrel-shaped body with slightly angular shoulder. Short, thick neck; plain, slightly outturned rim ... Context of late 1st century B.C. and 1st century after Christ ... The name Νικι'ας occurs also on medicine bottles of other shapes (IG XIV 2406:4b; Calvet 1982, p. 282; Ephesos IX, ii/ii, O 27, pp. 149, 152, pl. 214) and, according to Virginia Grace, on bottles in the Benaki collection and from the island of Rhodes (Benaki M 3; MS 555--557, 564) naming Νικι'ας τοῦ Θευδο'του.

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 1265

Lower part of wall and all of ring base. On underside of floor, three concentric circles with central dot. Most of the glazed fired red on the inside and on the outside below the figures. P.H. 0.15; diam ... Ca. 430 B.C ... The subject is not a very frequent one, and usually Eurykleia is already kneeling on the ground as she is on Rhodes 14174, an unattributed 4th-century pelike (Clara Rhodos 6--7, 1932--1933, pp. 458--459, figs. 13, 14) and the compositions as well as the participants vary considerably, suggesting that there is no one prototype.