Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 938
Chronology:   Ca. 420-400 B.C.
Deposit:   A--B 21--22:1
Published Number:   AV 30.938
References:   Object: P 16884
Body fragment with start of neck, all of ring base. P.H. 0.085; P. diam. 0.075.

A woman dressed in a chiton and himation sits to right on a klismos, juggling two balls(?). In front of her, the right hand and part of the lower drapery and foot of a standing woman facing her. Between the two, a spiral plant. Below, egg pattern with dots. On neck above junction of shoulder, tongue pattern.

For a seated woman juggling, see Baltimore, Walters Gallery 48.271 (CVA, Baltimore 1 [USA 28], pl. 33 [1445]:7--10), placed by Oakley (CVA, p. 31) on the fringes of the Group of the Paidikos Alabastra but not by one of its painters; the one on a hydria from Abdera attributed by Romiopoulou to the Peleus Painter (Δελτ 19, 1964 [1966], pl. 439); the cup by the Telephos Painter: Louvre G 331 (ARV2 819, 42; Paralip. 421, 42; Addenda 293); also Florence inv. 151458 = 16 B 41 by the Splanchnopft Painter (ARV2 894, 45; Esposito and de Tommaso, Vasi Attici, p. 71, fig. 112). For juggling, see the bibliography collected by E. Böhr in CVA, Tübingen 4 [Deutschland 52], p. 41 and by M. Vos in CVA, Leiden 4 [The Netherlands 7], p. 15).