Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 142
Chronology:   Late 5th or early 4th century B.C.
Deposit:   J 13
Published Number:   AV 30.142
References:   Object: P 1445
Two non-joining wall fragments of stand. Glaze flaked in places. Max. dim. a) 0.07, b) 0.068.

Fragment a shows most of the head and part of the left shoulder of a woman to left. Around her head is an ivy wreath with streamers; she also wears a necklace. Fragment b gives most of the face, chest, and raised left arm of a woman to right. Over her chiton she wears a cross girdle, and she is adorned further with an earring and necklace. Preliminary sketch. Added clay: wreath; dot at end of streamers; necklaces; earring; cross-girdle. Dilute glaze: surface between locks of hair.

The horizontal curve of these two fragments indicates that fragment a was high in the composition, probably just below the molding at the join with the lebes, and that fragment b was considerably lower. Thus, the woman on b was probably seated, the one on a, standing.

Not from the same stand as 143. The surface of 142 is smoother on both inside and outside. They are probably by the same hand and they take with them the unattributed stand of a lebes gamikos, Athens, N.M. 12894 (BCH 66--67, 1942--1943, pl. 13). I wish to thank M. Sgourou for drawing my attention to this parallel.