Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 323 Chronology: | | Ca. 440-430 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 18:1 (M) | Published Number: | | AV 30.323 | References: | | Object: P 15223
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About half preserved, including a segment of the rim and all of one handle. Narrow reserved band on inside of rim; another 0.046 below rim. Glaze fired greenish on outside. P.H. 0.20; est. diam. of rim 0.30.
A, departure of warrior (illustrated). At the left, a man (head, shoulder, arms, lower right leg and foot missing) stands to right, holding a staff. Next, a youth to right (his right forearm and part of his legs missing). He has a wreath around his head and wears a chlamys fastened at the right shoulder. A petasos hangs down his back. He is equipped with two spears and faces a woman dressed in a himation and chiton with a fillet around her head. She offers him a phiale, which she has probably just filled from the oinochoe held in her left hand. Between the youth and the woman, just below the rim:
All that remains of the figured decoration on the other side of the vase is a bit of drapery. On the rim and around the handle root, egg pattern. Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. Preliminary sketch. White: inscription. Dilute glaze: fine folds of chiton; muscles.
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