Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 32
Chronology:   Ca. 480-470 B.C.
Deposit:   I 13
Published Number:   AV 30.32
References:   Object: P 27396
Mended with small missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Lower part of body, all of foot missing. Thin glaze, reddish in places, abraded in others. P.H. 0.23; max. diam. 0.235; diam. of mouth 0.135. M. Lang, Graffiti in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 14), rev. ed., Princeton 1988, p. 30, fig. 29; K. Dover, Greek Homosexuality, Cambridge, Mass., 1978, p. 216, R 416; R. Lamberton and S. Rotroff, Birds of the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 22), Princeton 1985, p. 23, fig. 43; G. Koch-Harnach, Erotische Symbole: Lotusblüte und gemeinsame Mantel auf antiken Vasen, Berlin 1989, p. 167, fig. 34; M. Kilmer, Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases, London 1993, cat. no. R 416.

A (illustrated), woman (feet missing) in a chiton leaning over to right arms outstretched toward a phallos-bird standing to right with head turned back. B (part illustrated), woman in chiton, probably running to right, head turned back. Red (mostly flaked): line below figures that continued around the vase.

For phallos-birds, see J. Boardman, "The Phallos-Bird in Archaic and Classical Greek Art," RA, 1992, pp. 227--242; 32 is cat. no. 12 on p. 230.

Probably by the Geras Painter. For the drapery folds drawn in straight lines without reference to the figure beneath them, see Vienna 728 (ARV2 286, 11; Addenda 209); Vienna 905 (ARV2 286, 12); Cab. Méd. 391, the skirt of Dionysos' chiton (ARV2 286, 15; Addenda 209); New York, M.M.A. 01.8.8, Dionysos' chiton (ARV2 286, 19); Munich 2382, Herakles' chiton (ARV2 287, 27; Addenda 209). For phallos-birds in the work of the Geras Painter, see Louvre G 224, where one perches on the tip of Zeus' staff (ARV2 285, 1; Addenda 209), and Lausanne 3250, where it stands on a laver (Paralip. 355).