Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 982
Chronology:   Ca. 430-420 B.C.
Deposit:   G--H 11--12
Published Number:   AV 30.982
References:   Object: P 10508
Fragment of shoulder and body. Much of the drawing has flaked. Max. dim. 0.077.

Amazon (head with elaborate headdress, right arm, most of torso) standing frontally, facing to left. It is difficult to understand how this figure is dressed. There is a long-sleeved garment, then something that has a zigzag pattern, probably leggings covering her right leg, raised and bent sharply, perhaps resting on a rock. The curved line at the break next to the pattern might be the lower edge of the skirt of a short chiton. At the upper left, traces of another figure(?). Matte reddish brown for contours. Dilute yellow glaze for headdress and zigzag pattern.

Owing to the poor state of preservation of the figure of 982, it is difficult to find parallels. The best that I have been able to find are these: New York, M.M.A. 23.160.64, an unattributed volute-krater fragment that shows a right calf with legging and foot similar to 982 (D. von Bothmer, Amazons in Greek Art, Oxford 1957, pl. 82:6) and Louvre AM 94, an unattributed white ground lekythos depicting an Amazon to right, her left leg raised and bent, the foot resting on a stone (Bothmer, pl. 84:2), a reversal of the position on 982, the main difference being that the torso of the Amazon on 982 is frontal, that on Louvre AM 94 is in profile.