Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 543
Chronology:   Last quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Deposit:   H 6:9
Published Number:   AV 30.543
References:   Object: P 25284
Seventeen non-joining fragments, a, g, o and p with rim, h with handle. Mended in antiquity: fragment a has three lead mends. Est. diam. of rim 0.35. Max. dim. a) 0.188, b) 0.143, c) 0.04, d) 0.082, e) 0.032, g) 0.21, h) 0.185, i) 0.046, j) 0.036, k + n) 0.149, l) 0.093, m) 0.075, o) 0.117, p) 0.075, q) 0.045, r) 0.081, s) 0.085. S. I. Rotroff, Hesperia 52, 1983, pls. 57:73 (a -- e), 58:73 (g, h, k + n, l).

A, symposion. Fragment a shows the raised right forearm and the face (looking upward) of a symposiast, and on the far right, the top of a woman's head. Fragment b shows parts of the bodies of two symposiasts, with a woman between them, probably the head of the left symposiast and that of the woman on fragment a. Below the left arm of the right symposiast is a pillow. Fragment c shows the right shoulder and hand of a third symposiast, and d gives a bit of the couch with a pillow and a table with cakes on it. Fragments e, i -- j also seem to come from this side: e and i each with the foot of a couch leg and part of the stopped-maeander pattern with saltire-squares below; j gives a bit of a table leg. B, three youths. Fragment m preserves a bit of the drapery of 1, and at the far left, the start of handle A/B. Fragment k + n shows the lower part of this youth's drapery, more of the handle root as well as part of the palmette configuration below the handle and the maeander pattern. Fragment h, with part of handle B/A, preserves the upper parts of 2 and 3, both to left with something between them that looks like a box decorated with anX; 3 holds a tympanon in his right hand. Fragment l gives the lower drapery of 2 and more of the maeander pattern. Fragments g, o, and p are rim fragments with a laurel wreath to left; fragments g, h, and q -- s preserve a bit of the ornament below the figured decoration. White: woman's flesh; pillows; food. Dilute glaze: drawing on white.