Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 293
Chronology:   Ca. 470.
Deposit:   C 13--14
Published Number:   AV 30.293
References:   Object: P 8776
Five non-joining wall fragments. Max. dim. a) 0.132, b) 0.127, c) 0.127, e) 0.04, f) 0.044.

A, youth leaving home(?). Fragment a (illustrated) comes from just below the rim and shows a little of the top of the head and the forelock of a youth to right. Fragment b (illustrated) gives more of him: his right arm with hand on hip, most of his body clad in a short chiton with a chlamys over it clasped at his right shoulder, and a little of his petasos above his shoulder. He holds two spears in his left hand (mostly missing). Below, at the left, just above the break, is the end of his scabbard. He is the leftmost figure on this side because the glaze to the left of him is applied vertically. Fragment c (illustrated) shows the lower legs and feet of this youth, the ends of his spears, and next to them a line that looks like a stream of liquid, except that it does not fall vertically (perhaps it is oil). Then comes the woman (lower part of the himation and chiton, feet) facing him. Fragment e preserves only the end of the maeander pattern below the figures, and fragment f shows part of a raised left hand (the little finger, folded). It may come from the other side of the vase; if from Side A, it is the hand of the woman. Above the figures on fragment a, egg pattern; below them, on c, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour except for outer contours of limbs. Red: stream of liquid.

The Hephaisteion Painter (ARV1 192, 3; ARV2 298, 5).