Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 246
Chronology:   Ca. 410-400 B.C.
Deposit:   K 10
Published Number:   AV 30.246
References:   Object: P 6857
Shoulder fragment with start of handle at top. Max. dim. 0.08.

Head of woman (hair with sakkos) to left. At top, next to start of handle, a bit of reserve that may indicate the beginning of a pattern on the shoulder at the junction with the neck. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: alternate lozenges of pattern on sakkos.

The Nikias Painter (ARV2 1335, 37). For the hair and headdress, see the figure of Aphrodite on the hydria in Rhodes, which shows a bridal scene (ARV2 1335, 31; Addenda 365).