Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 656
Chronology:   Ca. 410-400 B.C.
Deposit:   Q 15:2
Published Number:   AV 30.656
References:   Object: P 23896
Preserved except for part of mouth and neck, which is restored in plaster and painted. Thin, reddish brown glaze on inside. Glaze slightly abraded on handle. Two holes in handle for ancient mend. H. 0.218; diam. 0.179. J. R. Green, BSA 66, 1971, pl. 30:b (part); P. Amandry and J. Ducat in Études Deliénnes (BCH Suppl. 1), Paris 1973, p. 38, fig. 26 (part); Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 109, cat. no. MM 54; LIMC VI, 1992, p. 860, no. 115, pl. 570, s.v. Nike.

Two Nikai standing before a tripod decorated with a fillet and mounted on a two-stepped base. Each goddess wears a peplos and is decked out with a necklace and a bracelet on each arm. The right has a wreath as well. The left Nike holds a lyre in her left hand; the right holds a wreath in her left. Above the figures, a frieze of upright encircled palmettes; below, stopped-maeander pattern with checkerboard-squares. The figures are framed by elongated chevrons. Relief contour: profiles. Dilute glaze: most of tripod; parts of feathers on wings. White (mostly flaked): wreaths; fillet on tripod; jewelry.

Assigned by Green to the Class of Ferrara T.108 A (BSA 66, 1971, p. 199, no. 1); Manner of the Meidias Painter, xii: Sundry (ARV2 1324, 40; Addenda 364).