Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 132
Chronology:   Ca. 410 B.C.
Deposit:   B 15:1
Published Number:   AV 30.132
References:   Object: P 10540
Four non-joining fragments: a shoulder and wall fragment of lebes with start of handle; b + c, and e of stand, d of foot. Stand strengthened with plaster and painted. Glaze fired brownish on lebes; flaked in places on stand. Stand completely glazed on inside. Max. dim. a) 0.122, d) 0.165, e) 0.059; P.H. of stand 0.164; diam. of foot 0.17. P. E. Corbett, Hesperia 18, 1949, pl. 81:7; E. Brümmer, JdI 100, 1985, p. 65, fig. 21:a (fragment a).

Fragment a (from the lebes) preserves the upper parts of two women to right, each wearing an elaborate headband and a peplos. Each has an earring; the right one has a necklace as well. The woman on the left carries a chest ornamented with two rows of egg-and-dot pattern, a scarf draped over her right hand. The right woman holds a similar chest (a little bit of it remains at the right break). At the far left, a bit of drapery (sakkos hanging on the wall[?]). Above the chest, tongue pattern between handle roots. On the stand (fragments b + c), women. 1 (back of head, feet missing) moves to right, carrying a long sash and a chest decorated with vertical stripes and a zone of esses. She wears a peplos and faces 2 (part of himation and chiton), who stands frontally holding a plemochoe in her right hand with a long sash hanging below. In her left (now missing) she held an object, perhaps a chest (part of one corner remains), with a long sash hanging down. Between the two, a sakkos hangs on the wall. Next there is a stool with a striped cushion, then the last woman, 3, who stands to left, wearing a himation (head, feet missing) and holding a mirror in her outstretched right hand. Above the mirror, a rectangular object (part) hanging on the wall. Fragment d (not illustrated) preserves the end of the sash held by 1 and the zone of inverted rays above the base. Fragment e (not illustrated) shows a little of the feet of 2 and a bit of her drapery, as well as more of the rays. Above the figures, stopped-maeander pattern with checkerboard-squares. Dilute glaze: folds of himation of 3.

132 seems closest to these three in the manner of the Meidias Painter: Athens, N.M. 1681 (ARV2 1322, 16; Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 106, cat. no. MM 26); Ferrara 2721 = T.1166 VT (ARV2 1322, 18; Paralip. 478, 18; Addenda 363; Burn, p. 107, cat. no. MM 28, pl. 48:a--c); and Berlin 2373 (ARV2 1322, 20; Burn, p. 107, cat. no. MM 30).