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| Rolled handle mended from two pieces, probably from a wide-mouthed scoop-shaped pot; handle complete with lower attachment, and start of spread to mouth at upper attachment. Small hole pierced through ... 11 March-1 April 1937 ... Band of lead, IL 1076, wrapped around handle near lower attachment; stamped on outside with magistrate's seal, as IL 701 and IL 1032 (Dionysos of Alkamenes, seated, facing right).
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| The seal is attached to the wall of a plain flat bottomed bowl, P 14431 (X 988), rivetted through the clay just below the rim.
A seated figure (Dionysos ?) facing right; a high back to throne, and apparently ... 9-12 February 1937 ... Svoronos (1923), pl. 92, nos. 8-21; also Richter (1929), p. 236, fig. 631: Dionysos by Alkamenes, seated right, thyrsos in one hand, kantharos in other, altar in front of him. |
| Several pieces, including chunks from sides and rim, missing. Flat bottom; straight sides; flat-topped projecting rim.
Orange-buff clay. Light slip. Surface much worn.
On side wall, just below rim, a ... 9-12 February 1937 ... This is certainly the "Dionysos by Alkamenes" type; it is not however a duplicate of either of the coins. ... Athenian Imperial coin type, Svoronos (1923), pl. 92, nos. 8-21, Dionysos by Alkamenes; seated right, thyrsos in one hand, kantharos in other, altar in front of him.
... The seal is certainly a copy of the statue which appears on Athenian New Style and Imperial coins and which has been identified as the Dionysos by Alkamenes. Our seal is not an exact duplicate of either of the coin types known (cf. |
| A herm used as support for the left arm of la large statue carrying a child.
Upper half of the child is missing as well as the entire statue, whose left arm rests on the head of the herm. The base of ... 2nd c. A.D ... Cf. the description of the Herm of Alkamenes in Richter (1929) , Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, p. 236, fig. 628 (p. 182, fig. 673 in the 4th edition 1970): "The style of the herm is evidently archaistic, the formal treatment of the hair and beard being conditioned by its architectonic character, for the rendering of the eyes places it in the second half of the fifth century." |
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