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[Agora Object] P 24061: Red Figure Lekythos: Inscribed

Base, neck, handle and part of shoulder and upper wall missing. Wall zone bounded below by pomegranate band, above by simple maeander; palmettes on shoulder. Three warriors (shields, helmets, spears) ... 29 May 1954 ... Haspels (1936) p. 69 ff., and the references there (=VA, p. 26; Caskey, Attic Vase-Paintings, p. 11). Hole bored through bottom for securing to teakwood base [25 August 1956].

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[Agora Object] A 957: Well Head

Parts of rim and nearly a quarter of wall missing; restored in plaster. A cylindrical drum, tapering around top. Heavy rim, flat on top and sharply profiled; lower wall thickened to form heavy collar ... 28 May-16 June 1938 ... Contemporary vase-paintings show similar openings beneath the rims of the pithos-like wellheads, which were more common than drums like ours.