Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 336
Chronology:   Ca. 430 B.C.
Deposit:   S 16:1
Published Number:   AV 30.336
References:   Object: P 27303
Wall fragment with rim and fascia. Narrow reserved band on inside at level of fascia on outside. Glaze fired reddish in many places; mottled on outside; abraded in part. Max. dim. 0.214. R. R. Holloway, Hesperia 35, 1966, pl. 27:a.

Youth pursuing a woman: Peleus and Thetis(?). The youth (head, shoulders, outstretched left arm) moves to right, dressed in a chlamys fastened at his throat with a brooch, a petasos hanging down his back. He faces a woman (most of head with stephane, raised outstretched right hand), who probably runs to right, looking back. On fascia above figures, egg pattern with dots. On rim, laurel wreath to left with berries. Red or white (flaked): ties of petasos.

Bothmer (cited by Holloway, Hesperia 35, 1966, p. 83, note 6) suggests that the subject is Peleus and Thetis. This would explain the youthfulness of the pursuer and the alarmed gesture of the woman, as well as her headdress. For the subject, see Krieger, Kampf zwischen Peleus und Thetis. For the pursuit, see pp. 43--55 and 60--65; LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 255--256, s.v. Peleus (R. Vollkommer).