Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 986
Chronology:   Ca. 410 B.C.
Deposit:   A--B 21--22:1
Published Number:   AV 30.986
References:   Object: P 16916
Most of shoulder with start of neck, about half of body. P.H. 0.076; diam. at shoulder 0.082. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 16, 1947, pl. 47:3; LIMC III, 1986, p. 454, no. 335, pl. 335, s.v. Dionysos; Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 115, cat. no. MM 118.

Dionysos and maenads. The youthful god sits to right on a decorated cloak, wearing high boots. He has a fillet around his head and holds a staff in his right hand, the arm raised and bent. There are plants around him. Behind him is a maenad (drapery, left arm) holding up part of her garment, and before him is another dressed in a long chiton with a nebris. She has a diadem on her head, wears a necklace, and has a bracelet on each wrist. In her right hand she holds a sword, in her left, a dead fawn. Then come the heads with diadems of two maenads to right, the one on the right with a tympanon, and at the far right are parts of objects that look like torches (not illustrated). Above and below, egg pattern with dots. On the shoulder, encircled diagonal palmettes to right. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: nebris; fawn. White: Dionysos's fillet; dots on other fillets; jewelry; fruit of plants; dots near top of torch.

Manner of the Meidias Painter, xii: Sundry (ARV2 1326, 76; Addenda 364).