Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 384
Chronology:   Ca. 400 B.C.
Deposit:   D 17:9
Published Number:   AV 30.384
References:   Object: P 19998
Wall fragment. Surface abraded and pitted. Max. dim. 0.078.

A, symposion. A man (chin, body to hips, right arm outstretched) reclines to left on a couch, looking back at a woman (part of body and legs) who holds one pipe of an aulos in her right hand. She wears a peplos and himation and has a bracelet on her right wrist. The man looks as if he holds something in his right hand, but this is actually the upper edge of her himation. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: stripes on mattress. White: bracelet.

The Nikias Painter (ARV2 1333, 9). The composition on 384 may have looked something like the one on the painter's dinos, London, B.M. E 811 (ARV2 1334, 26; Paralip. 480, 26) or the one on his bell-krater in Madrid 11020 (ARV2 1333, 7). 384 seems to be more carefully drawn.