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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. See also same figure, seated left on Athenian New Style coin dated ca. 90 B.C., Head (1888), BMC Attica, p. 104, no. 758, pl. |
| 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 ... 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.
... Athens New Style coin Head (1888), BMC Attica, pl. 12:8, dated ca. 90 B.C. ... Our seal is not an exact duplicate of either of the coin types known (cf. BMC Attica, pl. 12:8. |
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