Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 10
Chronology:   Ca. 450 B.C.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Published Number:   AV 30.10
References:   Object: P 21402
Four non-joining wall fragments, a and d with start of neck. Thin reddish glaze on inside. Glaze thin in places. Max. dim. a) 0.08, b) 0.17, c) 0.06, d) 0.065. C. Boulter, Hesperia 22, 1953, pl. 22:2; I. Scheibler, JdI 102, 1987, p. 74, fig. 11.

Fragment b (illustrated) preserves part of a figure (himation), probably a man, standing to right, holding a staff. In front of him is most of the body and one handle of a one-piece amphora decorated in silhouette technique with a nude man to right, looking back, his right arm outstretched, a staff in his left. He stands on a black ground line; above his head is a row of dots with a line above and below. Fragment d (illustrated) may come from either side of the vase. It shows the back of the crowned head of a woman to right. Above, a zone of diagonally addorsed palmettes. Fragment a gives a little more of this pattern but from the other side because it is slightly wider; fragment c preserves the frontal toes of a figure and a bit of the stopped-maeander pattern below. Red: two lines on neck above pattern on a.

The amphora on fragment b was probably held by someone, now missing, who stood at the right, facing to left. For a parallel (but with the figures reversed), see each side of Louvre CA 1852, an amphora Type B near the Boreas Painter (ARV2 540, 4; Addenda 256). The two amphorae on this vase are without decoration. Scheibler (JdI 102, 1987 [ pp. 57--118], p. 75) thinks that the figure partly preserved on fragment b held the amphora, but on the vase just cited the bottom of the amphora points toward its holder, and presumably the one on 10 did too. For a crown similar to the one on fragment d, cf. that of the woman (Helen[?]) on Ferrara 2739 = T.749 by the Boreas Painter (ARV2 536, 1; Paralip. 384, ---, 1; Addenda 255).

Not from the same amphora as 11 or 12: the glaze on the outside of 10 is duller than on 11; on the inside it is reddish; the hearts of the palmettes are differently treated. Also, fragment a has two red lines above the pattern. What remains of the glaze on the inside of 10 indicates that it does not come from the same amphora as 12.