Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 700 Chronology: | | Ca. 425 B.C. | Deposit: | | O 16:1--2 | Published Number: | | AV 30.700 | References: | | Object: P 23271
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Wall fragment from low down. Grainy brownish glaze on inside. Max. dim. 0.085.
Lower half of maenad dressed in a long chiton to left, holding a thyrsos (staff). In front of her, a baby satyr (lower half of one leg, tail) crawls away. Below, border of esses.
For the border of esses, not a frequent pattern on choes, see two unattributed examples: Louvre CA 1683 (Choes and Anthesteria, p. 171, cat. no. 840, fig. 58) and Louvre N 3338(p. 167, cat. no. 816, fig. 321).
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