Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1224
Chronology:   Second quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Deposit:   A 20
Published Number:   AV 30.1224
References:   Object: P 16617
Six non-joining fragments, a of rim, body, and cul; b and c of wall and cul; d -- f of wall. P.H. of a) 0.13; est. diam. at rim 0.25; max. dim. b) 0.11, c) 0.108, d) 0.042, e) 0.034, f) 0.029.

Revel. Fragment a shows a woman (a bit of drapery, left forearm missing) running to left, dressed in a chiton with a short tunic over it and holding a tympanon in her left hand (now missing). At the far left are the lower drapery and one foot of another, and behind her, a man or youth (face, left arm, part of right arm, and a bit of left foot missing) dances to left, holding up a cloak in his right hand, and looking back. Behind him is a bit of reserve that looks like the trunk of a tree. Fragment b shows the lower drapery and one foot of a woman to left and the legs of a male, who is frontal. Fragment c preserves the lower parts of a woman to right and the right foot of a male to left. At the left, behind the woman, foot and a little bit of drapery of one to left. Fragment d gives most of the head, the start of the arms, and a bit of drapery of a woman to left, perhaps the one on b (a groove on the inside of each fragment favors this), and fragment e shows a male foot to left. Fragment f (not illustrated) is undecorated. Above the figures, hanging spiral pattern on underside of rim. Below the figures, egg pattern with dots. White: woman's flesh; chiton on a; drapery at left break on c.

This may have been the way in which the figures were arranged. There were two women wearing white chitons, one on a and one on c, and there were eight figures in all, five women and three men. The two women in white chitons were diametrically opposite one another. Starting with the one on fragment a and moving from left to right: woman in white, reveler; fragment b: woman, reveler; fragment c: woman in white, woman, reveler; fragment a: woman whose foot appears at far left. The estimated diameter at the cul is ca. 0.18, the circumference, 0.711, and these dimensions would accommodate the figures in the sequence suggested here.