Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1575
Chronology:   Ca. 520 B.C.
Deposit:   E 19:7
Published Number:   AV 30.1575
References:   Object: P 14805
Floor fragment with stem and start of fillet. Incision at edge of fillet. Max. dim. 0.069.

I, runner (head, upper part of right arm, right leg from the knee down and left foot missing) to right. In his right hand he holds a laurel branch. Preliminary sketch. Very thin incised lines for muscles. Relief contours. Red: branch.

Perhaps by Psiax. The use of finely incised lines instead of glaze for some of the anatomical details is known, so far, mainly in the work of Psiax. This feature is difficult to detect in photographs, and therefore one is dependent upon first-hand observation of the vases or careful and detailed descriptions of them. Incision for anatomy occurs, for example, on the red-figured side of the bilingual amphora Type A in Munich, 2302 (ARV2 6, 1; Addenda 150; Lullies in CVA, München 4 [Deutschland 12], p. 8); another is the red-figured amphora Type A in Philadelphia 5399 (ARV2 7, 3); for the incision, see W. Bates, AJA 9, 1905, pp. 170--181, passim. Beazley (Vases in America, p. 6) adds two others: Munich 2590 by Phintias (ARV2 24, 12; Paralip. 323, 12; Addenda 155) and an unattributed cup contemporary with Psiax, Compiègne 1106 (CVA, Compiègne 1 [France 3], pl. 13 [111]:10). The proportions of the runner on 1575 agree reasonably well with those of the warriors on three cups: Cleveland 76.89 (ARV2 7, 7; Paralip. 321, 7; Addenda 151); Munich 2587 (ARV2 7, 8; Addenda 151) and New York, M.M.A. 14.146.1 (ARV2 8, 9; Addenda 151). I do not know if the anatomy of the figures on the first two cups is incised; on the last it is not. The diameter of the tondo of New York, M.M.A. 14.146.1 is 0.091, and the estimated diameter of 1575 ought to be about the same.