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| Fragment from the handle of a large coarseware jar or amphora, oval in section, broken at both ends.
Two lines of text running along length of handle:
Orange clay with light inclusions, covered with ... 18 May 1981 ... Ostrakon of Nikias Nikeratou (Kydantides) |
Bed picked smooth; anathyrosis on left hand. First class work.
From the Choregic Monument of Nikias.
Pentelic marble.
House 634/17. 29 Leica ... 1931 ... From the Choregic Monument of Nikias.
Pentelic marble.
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Wall fragment from just below rim. Narrow reserved band on inside. Glaze chipped and flaked in many places. Max. dim. 0.10.
B, youth (most of head, right shoulder, upper part of right arm) to right, wearing ... Ca. 400 B.C ... In the upper right, discus or tympanon.
The Nikias Painter (ARV2 1334, 21). |
Fragment of neck, shoulder, and wall. Dull, hard, black glaze on inside. Max. dim. 0.074. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 94, cat. no. 248 ter.
All that remains of the figured decoration is the end of a thyrsos ... Ca. 400 B.C ... For the egg pattern with ivy leaves, see Louvre CA 21 by the Nikias Painter (ARV2 1335, 33). |
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