Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 450
Chronology:   Probably early 4th century B.C.
Deposit:   H 6:1
Published Number:   AV 30.450
References:   Object: P 34
Object: P 22761
Three non-joining wall fragments, P 34 a/P 22761 a with half of one handle. Narrow reserved band on inside. Glaze abraded and flaked in places. P.H.P 34 a/P 22761 a) 0.23; max. dim. P 34 b) 0.107, P 22761 b) 0.076.

A, satyrs and maenads. P 34 a/P 22761 a shows the lower half of a maenad to left, wearing a decorated chiton. Behind her, a satyr (legs, end of thyrsos) to right, his left foot resting on a rock, then another maenad (lower part of drapery, feet to left). On the ground, a spiral plant. P 34 b (illustrated) preserves the satyr's filleted head, shoulders, and left arm reaching for the maenad and more of the thyrsos; then the back of the maenad's head with a sakkos, her upper right arm and chest, her head turned to right toward a second satyr (head, right shoulder, and most of arm around her shoulders). The maenad wears a chiton and a necklace. P 22761 b comes from the other side of the vase and preserves the draped shoulder and part of the filleted head of a youth to left. Below the figures, stopped-maeander pattern with checkerboard-squares, a dot in each reserved square. Around handle root, egg pattern. White: maenad's flesh, part of drapery; fillets. Dilute glaze: necklace.

The Painter of the Oxford Grypomachy (ARV1 877, 11; in Addenda and Corrigenda, p. 2505, to ARV1 p. 877, delete no. 11; not in ARV2).