Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 599
Chronology:   Ca. 440 B.C.
Deposit:   N 17
Published Number:   AV 30.599
References:   Object: P 17058
Shoulder fragment with start of neck. Glaze fired red except for ribbons on woman's head. Max. dim. 0.06. Matheson, Polygnotos, p. 376, cat. no. CHR 58.

Woman (head, shoulders, right arm) standing frontally, head to left, right arm outstretched, hand open. She wears a chiton and himation; her hair is tied up with ribbons. At the far left there is part of the shaft of a staff held by someone facing her. Preliminary sketch. Dilute glaze: spiral lines on shaft.

The Christie Painter (ARV2 1049, 55). The composition on 599 may have looked something like the one with three maenads on the painter's calyx-krater, Louvre G 404 (ARV2 1046, 6; Addenda 320; Matheson, p. 366, cat. no. CHR 6).