Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 682 Chronology: | | Early 4th century B.C. | Deposit: | | I 13:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.682 | References: | | Object: P 27381
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Most of body, all of base. Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted. Non-joining handle. Dull black glaze on inside. P.H. 0.16; diam. 0.173. Max. dim. of handle 0.14.
Satyr and maenads. The satyr, nude but for a skin over his left arm, moves to left, looking back at a maenad who sits to right (uncertain on what), looking back, a thyrsos resting in the crook of her right arm. In her left hand she holds a tympanon. At the left of the composition a maenad (top of head missing) stands to right, right hand resting on her hip, left pointing to a tympanon. Each maenad wears a peplos and has a fillet around her head. The left wears a necklace, an earring and has a bracelet on each wrist; the right has a bracelet on her right wrist. Below, egg pattern with dots. White: fillets; jewelry; pelt; dot on left tympanon.
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