Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 383 Chronology: | | Ca. 400 B.C. | Deposit: | | G 18:1 (U) | Published Number: | | AV 30.383 | References: | | Object: P 15133
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Wall fragment. Max. dim. 0.082. Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 118, cat. no. MM 152.
Women. At the left, the lower neck and left shoulder of one, probably seated. She wears a chiton and necklace. Next to her part of the body of another; she is in three-quarter view to left, holding an olive branch or a wreath in her left hand. At the top, the start of her outstretched right arm, the hand perhaps holding the other end of the branch or wreath. She wears a chiton and himation (heavier folds at her left elbow) as well as a bracelet. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Added clay: jewelry; dot on first woman's shoulder (a brooch[?]); fruit of branch or wreath.
The himation worn by the right woman was decorated with a heavy black border. Cf., e.g., Athens, N.M. 1681 in the manner of the Meidias Painter (ARV2 1322, 16; Burn, p. 106, cat. no. MM 26).
Manner of the Meidias Painter, xii: Sundry (ARV2 1328, 100).
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