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Fragment from bottom of B.F plate with rabbit caught by man and legs of crane (?). Oscar Broneer Nb. No. 2, Acropolis dump, section Y 129 ... 10 Oct 1933 ... Fragment from bottom of B.F plate with rabbit caught by man and legs of crane (?). |
Single fragment.
To left, hair and drapery of a pygmy preserved.
The pygmy is gingerly reaching to a crane, to the right.
Purple paint. Carl Roebuck, Nb. No. 6.
Well A, Pit A. 31 ... 24 March 1938 ... The pygmy is gingerly reaching to a crane, to the right.
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| Fragment from a closed pot; broken all around. Two zones: 1) crane to left with wings spread; 2) chain of buds, upwards. White (or red?) for stripes on wings. Unknown. Catalogued 1959. Well. Leica ... 1936 ... Two zones: 1) crane to left with wings spread; 2) chain of buds, upwards. |
| Two rim fragments from a 'double decker' krater, shape as Louvre, Pottier, Album, III, G 529,530
Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: on a) a crane, right, between two pygmies the one at the left with a club ... 1931 ... Two rim fragments from a 'double decker' krater, shape as Louvre, Pottier, Album, III, G 529,530
Battle of Pygmies and Cranes: on a) a crane, right, between two pygmies the one at the left with a club right raised hand and other at the right, object between him and the crane is probably his dropped club (?); on b) a crane, right, grasping with his beak the outstretched, drapery covered arm of a pygmy.
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| a) Two joining fragments. A pygmy seizes a crane by its neck. At right, wing of another bird. Two red lines hang down over pygmy's arm.
b) Single fragment with some of lower part of handle zone and below ... 20 June 1955 ... A pygmy seizes a crane by its neck. |
Shoulder fragment with turn of body. Max. dim. 0.088. M. Lang, Graffiti in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 14), rev. ed., Princeton 1988, p. 13, fig. 34; R. Lamberton and S. Rotroff, Birds of the ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... At the left is a bit of the outspread wing, arched neck, and the head of a crane, then a pygmy (top of head, lower right leg missing) to right, a round shield seen from the inside carried on his left arm. Next is another crane (head missing), also to right, seemingly unperturbed; and on the far right, a pygmy (head and arms missing but for contour of right arm just at the break), down on one knee, attacking a crane. ... Dilute glaze: muscles of pygmies; cover feathers of crane.
The closest parallel to the scene on 593 is the one on the shoulder of a kalpis by the Leningrad Painter, Bologna 169 (ARV2 571, 80). |
Top of knob missing.
Lid. Flat top with vertical rim and high pagoda knob. Top surface offset at edge. Glaze fired gray inside.
From a similar lid, a fragment decorated with an incised sketch of pigmy ... 425-400 B.C ... From a similar lid, a fragment decorated with an incised sketch of pigmy and crane is P 10352 Len. |
| Less than half the lid preserved.
Downturned rim. On top, groove near edge. Inside this, surface rises toward central peg (missing). Outside the groove an incised tendril border. Inside, stepping on the ... 27 March 1936 ... His immediate antagonist is missing, but on the other side (left, in fragment preserved) is a crane in flight (head broken away). |
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