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[Agora Object] P 17877: Jug with Relief Decoration

Intact. Flat bottom and straight side wall; upward sloping shoulder, ribbed; narrow neck with plain slightly flaring lip; ridged vertical handle, base of neck to edge of shoulder. Mould-made in two pieces, ... 30 May 1947 ... On the back, Herakles wearing the lion's skin as a cloak knotted around his neck and flaying out behind him, shoots with bow and arrow at the Stymphalian birds. Two have fallen, and a third, pierced by an arrow, drops through the air.

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 203, p. 184

Peleus and Thetis. Repairs to sculpture in antiquity. Peplos in archaistic sculpture. Perirrhanteria in the form of archaistic korai. Retrograde inscriptions. Persephone. Re-use of sculpture in antiquity ... Agora 11 184 ... Stymphalian birds