Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1419
Chronology:   Ca. 490-480 B.C.
Deposit:   L 17
Published Number:   AV 30.1419
References:   Object: P 26245
Bowl fragment. Max. dim. 0.032; est. diam. of tondo 0.14. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 28, 1959, pl. 22:a, c.

I, around tondo, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. A, nude man or youth (from the waist down, except for feet) standing to right, his right leg frontal. There is a little relief glaze at his right hip, perhaps something he is holding or the thumb of his right hand. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: muscles.

The Berlin Painter (ARV2 214, 243). In ARV2, Beazley remarked: "The maeander is not the least like the Berlin Painter's patterns." In her article on the Gorgos cup (1407) (JHS 103, 1983, pp. 68--86), D. C. Kurtz (p. 70) in a brief mention of 1419 notes: "Dyfri Williams has recently assigned it [ 1419 ] to the Foundry Painter." This seems to be likely, particularly because the frontal leg does not resemble very closely those by the Berlin Painter. Cf., e.g., Hermes on London, B.M. E 268 (ARV2 198, 24; Addenda 191); the youth on Oxford 1924.3 (ARV2 200, 45; Paralip. 342, 45; Addenda 191); the armed youth on Vienna 654 (ARV2 201, 67; Addenda 192); the satyr on New York, M.M.A. 07.286.69 (ARV2 201, 70; Addenda 192); the satyr on Louvre G 185 (ARV2 207, 142; Addenda 194); and the youthful warrior on the stamnos now New York, M.M.A. 1988.40, ex New York, Bastis (ARV2 207, 141; Addenda 194; Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, New York 1987, cat. no. 162). For the Foundry Painter, the best comparisons are these: the central youth on side A of the namepiece (ARV2 400, 1; Paralip. 370, 1; Addenda 230); the youth in the tondo of London, B.M. GR 1850.3--2.2 = E 78 (ARV2 401, 3; Paralip. 370, 3; Addenda 230; CVA, London 9 [Great Britain 17], pl. 68 [844]); the symposiast in the tondo of Boston, M.F.A. 01.8034 (ARV2 401, 11; Paralip. 370, 11); the figure near the door on London, B.M. GR 1895.5--13.1 (Paralip. 370, 14 bis; CVA, pl. 71 [847].a); and a newcomer, the cup in Bloomington, Ind., the Indiana University Art Museum, 75.19.1 (E. Knauer, The Indiana University Art Museum, Occasional Papers, 1987, pp. 1--29, esp. figs. 3--7). For the maeander pattern with rather long units, see, e.g., London, B.M. GR 1850.3--2.2 = E 78; Toledo 64.126 (Paralip. 370, 12 bis; Addenda 231); and Berlin 3198 (ARV2 402, 13; Paralip. 370, 13).