Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 342
Chronology:   Third quarter of the 5th century B.C.
Deposit:   H 5--6
Published Number:   AV 30.342
References:   Object: P 5110
P 134 andThree non-joining wall fragments, P 5110 a with roots of one handle. Glaze flaked in many places; fired brown on much of inside. P.H. of P 5110 a) 0.185; P.W. 0.29; max. dim. P 134: 0.184, P 5110 b) 0.079.

A--B, Peleus seizing Thetis. P 5110 a preserves a Nereid (head, right hand and foot, most of left arm missing) hurrying to left, probably looking back since she is next to the handle. She wears a peplos. Behind her, Peleus (right leg from the knee down; lower part of short chiton) seizes Thetis (lower part of drapery, right foot) to right. At the left, part of the palmette configuration below the handle and the ends of the tongues around each root. P 134 comes from Side B and shows Chiron (part of torso and thigh with short chiton and folds of himation, left hand holding a branch, part of his horse body and hind legs) standing to left. On his right, opposite his hind legs a Nereid (lower part of chiton and himation) runs to right. P 5110 b preserves the right foot and bottom

of a long chiton of someone, probably a Nereid, standing opposite Chiron, the right foot and the toes of the left foot of the centaur and the end of his branch. Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern with saltire-squares. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.

Normally, Chiron carries a branch, often laden with game, over his shoulder, and it does not touch ground the way it does on 342. For a good parallel, see Munich inv. 8738 by the Berlin Painter (ARV2 209, 161; Paralip. 343, 161; Addenda 195). There, the subject is also Peleus seizing Thetis.

For the theme of Peleus seizing Thetis, see Krieger, Kampf zwischen Peleus und Thetis, esp. pp. 25--43, 55--60; LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 257--264, esp. p. 261 for scenes where Chiron and the Nereids are present, s.v. Peleus (R. Vollkommer).

Perhaps by the same hand as the contemporary unattributed bell-krater, Chiusi C 1823 (CVA, Chiusi 2 [Italia 60], pls. 12, 13 [2654, 2655]:1,2). Compare especially the ornamental patterns for borders of garments: the dentil pattern and the row of dots above a thick band.