Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1661 Chronology: | | Ca. 410-400 B.C. | Deposit: | | S 19:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.1661 | References: | | Object: P 14261
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Wall fragment. Max. dim. 0.068. Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 118, cat. no. MM 157.
Woman (part of right side of body, right arm with bracelet at wrist) wearing a peplos. She stands frontally, holding a large fan (stem, lower part of leaf) in her lowered right hand. Behind her are the leg and foot of a diminutive figure (preliminary sketch confirms this), perhaps Eros, hovering. At the very left is part of an angular object that could be the back of a klismos and the curved bit above it, the shoulder of a seated figure. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Added clay: bracelet; dot at end of drapery fold. White (flaked): dots on black border of drapery.
The composition may have been something like the one on St. Petersburg St. 1811 = 1837, 4, a nuptial lebes gamikos in the tradition of those in the manner of the Meidias Painter (ARV2 1332, 1; Paralip. 480, 1; Addenda 365). There, the bride sits on a chair flanked by attendants and two hovering Erotes.
Manner of the Meidias Painter, xii: Sundry (ARV2 1329, 105).
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