Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 107
Chronology:   Ca. 410-400 B.C.
Deposit:   N 10:1
Published Number:   AV 30.107
References:   Object: P 5222
Three non-joining wall fragments, a with turn of shoulder and start of handle. Max. dim. a) 0.128, b) 0.097, c) 0.046.

Wedding procession. Fragment a (illustrated) preserves the heads of two trace horses and the right hand of a man steadying them. Both animals have bit burrs. On the right-hand side of the team are the shaft and capital of an Ionic column. Above, a wreath, similar to the one on 106 but without the central leaf of each unit. On the shoulder at the junction with the neck, tongue pattern; below, an egg pattern. Fragment b (illustrated) preserves the chest, lap, and left arm of a woman seated in three-quarter view to left, dressed in a chiton with a decorated himation draped across her lap. On the right, the fingers of a figure behind her, probably standing. Fragment c preserves similar drapery and part of a left arm bent sharply at the elbow. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: some anatomy. White (flaked): stem and berries of wreath.

For bit burrs, see 96.

Not from the same loutrophoros as 106: the thickness of the wall at the level of the wreath is different; on 107, the leaves are longer and spaced farther apart, each unit of the wreath has two leaves, and the band is slightly wider; the figures on 107 seem a bit larger in scale than those on 106, and the ornamental patterns are less finely drawn.

There is something Meidian about the style of drawing on 107, and these fragments very likely belong somewhere within the group, although probably not by the painter himself. The horses, from what remains, compare favorably with those on the namepiece, London, B.M. E 224 (ARV2 1313, 5; Paralip. 477, 5; Addenda 361; Burn, Meidias Painter, p. 97, cat. no. M 5, pl. 5:a, b; Reeder, Pandora, p. 79, fig. 5). The drapery is similar to that of very many Meidian women; the heavy black border is unusual but may be seen on Athens, N.M. 1681 (ARV2 1322, 16; Burn, p. 106, cat. no. MM 26) and on Berlin 2373 (ARV2 1322, 20; Burn, p. 107, cat. no. MM 30), a lebes gamikos and a loutrophoros, respectively, in his manner.