Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 223 Chronology: | | Ca. 470-460 B.C. | Deposit: | | C 9:6 | Published Number: | | AV 30.223 | References: | | Object: P 9465
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Wall fragment with start of shoulder. Glaze pitted in places on outside. Max. dim. 0.063. W. B. Dinsmoor, Hesperia Suppl. V, p. 136, fig. 63:15.
At the right, the face of a woman or a youth and part of the right arm, all but the hand wrapped in a himation, to left facing a woman or a man (left hand holding a purse). Fillet around head. In the field:
Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: purse. Red: fillet; inscription.
For a similar wrapping of the himation, see the youth holding a drinking cup on the obverse of Louvre CA 4704 by the Pig Painter (ARV2 570, 55; Addenda 261).
Earlier Mannerists, i: The Pig Painter (ARV1 372, 39); Manner of the Pig Painter (ARV2 566, 11).
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