Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 261
Chronology:   Ca. 470 B.C.
Deposit:   C 9:6
Published Number:   AV 30.261
References:   Object: P 9462
Mended with missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably most of the rim, all of the foot, much of the wall, part of each handle and the cul. Narrow reserved band on inside 0.035 below rim. Glaze pitted in places. Mended in antiquity: holes in rim and wall. Rest. H. 0.40; diam. of rim 0.373. W. B. Dinsmoor, Hesperia Suppl. V, p. 133, fig. 60:12.

A, Dionysos (back of wreathed head, arm, most of body) to left, looking back. He wears a chiton and himation and holds something in his left hand, perhaps ivy (a little of what looks like a vine remains). B, maenad (head, lower part of drapery missing) moving to right, looking back, a thyrsos held at waist level in her left hand. She also wears a chiton and himation. On the lower part of the rim below the torus, egg pattern with dots. On cul, stopped-maeander pattern with saltire-squares. Preliminary sketch. Red: stem of wreath.

The Hephaisteion Painter (ARV1 192, 2; ARV2 298, 4).