Broken and mended with many missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably a large amount of the rim. Three concentric circles on underside of foot. Glaze misfired on A--B from stacking in the kiln (there is a ring at about knee level of the figures). H. 0.097; rest. diam. at rim 0.239; width with handles 0.319; diam. of tondo; diam. of foot 0.089. L. Talcott, Hesperia 2, 1933, pp. 216--224, figs. 1--4; Bloesch, FAS, p. 103, no. 1 and pl. 29, 1 (B); Themelis, Agora: Guide, p. 67; J. McK. Camp, Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 19), Princeton 1980, p. 3, fig. 2 (I).

I, warrior at altar. A youthful warrior with a low-crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on his head, dressed in a short chiton with corslet and cloak, as well as greaves, stands to right, holding a phiale in his outstretched right hand, about to pour a libation on a flaming altar. In his left hand he holds a spear, and behind him is his round shield seen in three-quarter view from the inside. The altar is supported by a base and is surmounted by a pediment decorated with two bearded snakes and framed by a double volute and a palmette. The side of the altar is decorated with two zones of dots. The smears on the side represent blood. In front of theyouth's face:

Around the tondo, stopped-maeander pattern with saltire- and cross-squares. A--B, warriors about to leave home. A, two warriors and a woman holding a shield. At the left, a warrior (legs with greaves; lower skirt of chiton; ends of cloak) strides to left toward an altar placed below the handle. On top of the altar lies a wreath. The warrior carries a round shield (part) on his left arm and holds a spear (a bit of the shaft appears next to the handle). The rim of his shield is incised (compass-drawn). Behind him stands another (most of head, torso missing) similarly dressed. A bit of his helmet with upturned cheekpieces remains as well as the ends of three pteryges of his corslet. In his left hand he grasps a spear; in his right, he holds out a phiale toward the woman, who faces him, left hand on hip, dressed in a chiton and himation. Her head and most of her body are lost. She stands between two Doric columns (capital of right one missing). The warrior's shield, seen in three-quarter view from the inside, seems to lean against the woman. B, king and woman, old man, man with barbiton. Beneath the handle next to the right column on Side A is a stool covered with a spotted feline skin, then comes the barbiton-player (lower parts) striding to left, holding the instrument by one arm in his left hand. He wears a chiton and himation. Behind the musician, the king clad in a himation and chiton, stands to right, holding a phiale in his outstretched right hand, which the woman facing him fills from an oinochoe held in her right hand (liquid pours from the vessel). The king has a scepter in his left hand. The woman wears a sakkos on her head and is clad in a chiton and himation. Behind her sits a man on a stool, a crutch in his left hand, a phiale with liquid pouring from it in his right. He too wears a chiton and himation. Behind the woman's head:

above the head of the old man:

Below the figures, two reserved lines. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: blood on altar on I, cord on inside of shield; dots on king's phiale; phiale held by seated man and the liquid pouring from it, stubble on his face; liquid pouring from oinochoe(?). Red (flaked): inscriptions; flames on altar on I; wreath on altar on A.

It is not clear to me why Seki (Gefässeform . . . Schalen, p. 53, cat. no. 263) reversed Beazley's designation of A and B. For the barbiton, see 196.

Namepiece of the Painter of Agora P 42 (ARV2 one 273, 1; ARV2 415, 1).