Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 19
Chronology:   Ca. 470 B.C.
Deposit:   H 13:5
Published Number:   AV 30.19
References:   Object: P 27851
Two non-joining body fragments, a strengthened with plaster and painted. Start of handle at far left of fragment a. Good glaze, slightly brownish on b. P.H. a) 0.18, b) 0.112; max. dim. a) 0.223, b) 0.162.

A, Nike (parts of wings missing) flying to right, looking back, holding in her left hand a tripod upside down (a little of one ring missing), in her right an oinochoe (neck and mouth missing). She is dressed in a long chiton. Around her head is a wreath. B, woman and man. The woman (part of head, drapery, raised arms) stands to right dressed in a chiton. The position of her arms suggests that she plays the aulos (although what looks like the end of the aulos itself at the break is a chip in the surface). In front of her is a man (head, lower legs, and feet missing) to right, part of an object in his right hand that looks like a wineskin, and a storage amphora (the preliminary sketch makes this clear), decorated with horizontal lines, crooked in his left arm. Over his right shoulder and left forearm is a cloak. Preliminary sketch. Dilute glaze: stripes on vessel, muscles; cover feathers of wing. Red (mostly flaked): wreath; line below figures that continues around the vase.

For a wineskin with a loop similar to the loop seen on 19, cf. Munich 2343 by the Alkimachos Painter (ARV2 531, 27).

For an amphora with somewhat similar decoration, see the pair carried by Herakles on Berlin 4027 by the Pan Painter (ARV2 551, 5); the horizontal lines on the fishermen's baskets on Vienna 3727 also by the Pan Painter (ARV2 555, 88; Addenda 258) and the stripes on the baskets held by the man on the Pig Painter's namepiece, Cambridge 9.17 (ARV2 564, 27; Addenda 260).

Probably by a painter from the group of Earlier Mannerists. Besides the comparison with the Pig Painter just cited, one may add two others: in general, the figures of Prokroustes on side A and to a lesser extent the winged goddess on side B of Cambridge GR 22.1937 = 37.22 (ARV2 565, 36; Addenda 260). What remains of the head of the aulos-player on 19 bears some resemblance to that of the one on Lecce 572 (ARV2 564, 21; Paralip. 389, 21; Addenda 260).