Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 691
Chronology:   Ca. 430 B.C.
Deposit:   B 21
Published Number:   AV 30.691
References:   Object: P 15370
Four non-joining fragments, a with part of trefoil mouth and all of handle, part of body; b -- d are wall fragments from lower down. Brown glaze on inside. P.H. a) 0.073. Max. dim. a) 0.108, b) 0.102, c) 0.047, d) 0.03. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 90, cat. no. 228, fig. 33.

Youth and horse. Fragment a shows the upper parts of a youth to left, wearing a petasos and a chlamys over a chiton and holding two spears in his left hand. His right arm is outstretched. Above, at the left, branches of a tree. Fragments c and d each preserve one of his sandaled feet, d the ends of his spears as well as the end of the horse's tail; the horse's forelegs and one hind hoof remain on fragment b. Between two of the hoofs is the trunk of the tree. In front of the horse:

Below the figures, egg pattern with dots, the eggs having a double contour. Reserved line for side frame (fragments a and b). Relief contour: profile. White (mostly flaked): leaves; inscription.

For the egg pattern with two lines separating each unit, a not very common variant, see 694; 720; 1015; 1016; two by the Shuvalov Painter: New York, M.M.A. 08.258.24 (ARV2 1208, 39; Addenda 346) and Athens, Vlasto (ARV2 1208, 40; Addenda 346); one in his manner, London, B.M. E 208 (ARV2 1211, 3; Addenda 347); three unattributed: Karlsruhe B 1513 (Choes and Anthesteria, p. 120, cat. no. 443, fig. 30; CVA, Karlsruhe 1 [Deutschland 7], pl. 24 [322]:6), Amsterdam 642 (Choes and Anthesteria, p. 59, cat. no. 5, fig. 642), and London, B.M. E 529, lower border only (Choes and Anthesteria, p. 143, cat. no. 633, fig. 98): there, the centers are solid. For an earlier example, see Tübingen S./10 1378, which is Penthesilean but not attributed to one of the group's painters (CVA, Tübingen 4 [Deutschland 52], pl. 40 [2557]:3).