Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 292
Chronology:   Mid-5th century B.C.
Deposit:   N 7:3
Published Number:   AV 30.292
References:   Object: P 21375
Three non-joining wall fragments from each side, with start of rim. Fragment c preserves a lug. Glaze cracked here and there. Max. dim. a) 0.099, b) 0.177; diam. of rim, fragment c: 0.30. C. Boulter, Hesperia 22, 1953, p. 67, fig. 1:8, pl. 25:8.

Fragment a (illustrated) preserves a youth (most of head, chest, right hand) to right, holding a lyre (upper parts of arms, crosspiece). He wears a himation and faces another (forelock at far right). Above, a "Goody-cross," perhaps a torch holder, hangs on the wall. Fragment b comes from the other side of the krater and shows two youths (body of one in himation; head, part of himation of other) facing. Above hangs a strigil. At top of figured zone, tongue pattern.

For the "Goody-cross" as a torch holder, see H. R. W. Smith in CVA, Univ. of California 1 [USA 5], pp. 41--42; more recently, M. deNoyelle, Revue du Louvre 5/6, 1991, p. 18, right column, and D. Williams, CVA, London 9 [Great Britain 17], p. 30, sub 16 for various interpretations and bibliography.