Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 308
Chronology:   Ca. 450-440 B.C.
Deposit:   Q 9
Published Number:   AV 30.308
References:   Object: P 23623
Wall fragment from just below rim. Reserved band 0.07 on inside below where rim started on outside. Max. dim. 0.062.

Statue of a goddess (Pandora[?]): head with polos, start of chiton or peplos, shown frontally. Dilute glaze: hair; decoration on polos.

It is uncertain whom the goddess represents. The first possibility that comes to mind is Pandora, one of the most famous examples being the one on London, B.M. E 467 by the Niobid Painter (ARV2 601, 23; Paralip. 395, 23; Addenda 266; Prange, Niobidenmaler, p. 187, cat. no. N 31; Reeder, Pandora, pp. 282--284, cat. no. 80). There, however, Pandora is bare headed, and the pins of her dress are prominent. The goddess on 308 might also be Anesidora, whose name is synonomous with that of Pandora (LIMC I, 1981, pp. 790--791, s.v. Anesidora [E. Simon]). Chryse is also a possibility (LIMC III, 1986, pp. 279--281, s.v. Chryse I [H. Froning]).