Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 120 Chronology: | | Ca. 470 B.C. | Deposit: | | H 7:1 | Published Number: | | AV 30.120 | References: | | Object: P 4841
|
Wall fragment of stand. Glaze pitted and flaked in places. P.H. a) 0.175, b) 0.086. E. Papoutsaki-Serbeti, Ὀ Ζωγράφος τῆς Providence, Athens 1983, pl. 33; K. Arafat, Classical Zeus, Oxford 1990, pl. 31.
Zeus, Athena, and a god (Poseidon[?]). Zeus (preserved to waist) stands to right, wearing a chiton and himation. He holds his scepter in his left hand while pouring a libation from the phiale held in his right. Around his head is a fillet. Athena stands before him, pouring wine from the oinochoe she holds in her outstretched right hand. The stream of liquid flows alongside Zeus' wrist, not into the phiale. She wears a long chiton and ependytes, her aegis over both shoulders, her spear held lightly in her left hand. Around her head is a stephane; she also has an earring. The back of her head and her feet are missing; the surface of her face is scratched and pitted. Behind her is the next god (head with fillet, right shoulder, and outstretched arm), standing to left, dressed in a long chiton. Above the figures, a zone of rosettes drawn in silhouette. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: folds on chitons and ependytes; scales on aegis. Red: fillets; wine.
In ARV1 434, 48, Beazley identified the third deity as Poseidon; in ARV2 639, 61, as Hermes. The absence of a petasos and chlamys favors an identification as Poseidon.
The Providence Painter (ARV1 4, 48; ARV2 639, 61; Addenda 274).
|