Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 399
Chronology:   Late 5th century B.C.
Deposit:   B 15:1
Published Number:   AV 30.399
References:   Object: P 10673
Broken and mended with small missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Reserved groove at top of foot on outside. Reserved line on inside just below rim; another, 0.055 below rim. Glaze misfired reddish brown on body below figures and on foot; abraded slightly. H. 0.34; diam. at rim 0.335. P. E. Corbett, Hesperia 18, 1949, pls. 75, 76; E. G. Pemberton, BSA 76, 1981, pls. 54:c, 55:a; LIMC II, 1984, p. 1005, no. 526, pl. 759, s.v. Athena; LIMC V, 1990, p. 150, no. 3176, s.v. Herakles.

A, Athena and Herakles. At the left, a man with a fillet around his head and clad in an elaborately decorated himation stands to right, with his right arm extended slightly. Next comes Athena standing frontally, head turned to right toward Herakles. Most of her face is missing. She wears a decorated peplos and has a bracelet around her right wrist; her helmet is pushed up. In her right hand she holds a trefoil oinochoe; in her left, a spear. Herakles stands frontally, his lionskin wound around his left forearm, his left hand (now missing) resting on his club. The hero's head and most of his torso are missing. Finally comes a youth, probably Iolaos, standing to left, a myrtle wreath around his head, wearing a chlamys and boots. His petasos hangs down his back; in his left hand he holds two spears, which rest against his shoulder. In the field hang two laurel wreaths. B, Dionysos with a satyr and maenad. At the

left, the maenad, wearing a peplos, stands to right, holding in her outstretched left hand an object that looks like a torch. Around her head is a sakkos. Most of her right arm and a bit of drapery are missing. The satyr (most of right leg missing) leans to right, his left leg bent, the foot resting on a rock. Around his head is an ivy wreath, and in his left hand (missing) he holds a thyrsos. The satyr faces a youthful Dionysos, who has a cloak over his left shoulder and around his right arm, gathering up the folds in his right hand (most of arm missing). Around his head is an ivy wreath; in his left hand, a thyrsos. On rim, laurel wreath to left. Palmette-and-tendril configuration at handles. Egg pattern around each handle root. Below the figures, trapped maeander with checkerboard-squares. White (flaked): berries of wreaths; Athena's bracelet; stone beneath satyr's foot.

Compare the Painter of Athens 13908 (ARV2 1404, ---; Addenda 374).