Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1070 Chronology: | | Ca. 410 B.C. | Deposit: | | B 13:5 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1070 | References: | | Object: P 10006
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About half of lid and all of knob preserved. Reserved band on top side of knob around central depression. Glazed on underside. P.H. 0.06; max. dim. 0.15.
From the center out: egg pattern with dots; women. At the left is the upper half of a woman wearing a peplos and a sakkos, standing frontally, her head turned to left (in the photograph, she is much concealed by the knob). On her outstretched left forearm she holds a box. Next is the second woman (head, shoulders, left arm outstretched, holding a fillet or a ribbon in her left hand). She wears a peplos, around her head is a fillet, and she stands frontally, head to right. Next comes a woman seated on a klismos, wearing a chiton and himation as well as a kredemnos with three spikes. She holds one end of a wreath while the woman in front of her holds the other, each in the right hand. This woman, with a kredemnos similar to the
last, wears a peplos and stands frontally, head turned to left. On her outstretched left forearm she holds a box. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour except for outer contours of arms. Red: ribbon; band of wreath. White: projections on tops of boxes; spikes of kredemnoi; dots of wreath.
Early manner of the Meidias Painter (Addenda and Corrigenda, p. 1951; not in ARV2).
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