Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 736 Chronology: | | Late 5th century B.C. | Deposit: | | B 13:5 | Published Number: | | AV 30.736 | References: | | Object: P 10948
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Fragment of shoulder and neck. Thin, brownish black glaze on inside. Max. dim. 0.076. Choes and Anthesteria, p. 86, cat. no. 203, fig. 309 (now augmented).
Boy (legs missing) riding a fawn (top of head with ears, part of body) to right. Wreath around youth's head. Above his head:
Above, egg pattern with dots. Reserved line for side frames. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour: profile and front of torso. Added clay: vine of wreath. Dilute glaze: fawn. White: inscription.
For Mikion, see ARV2 1601; K. Dover, Greek Homosexuality, Cambridge, Mass., 1978, p. 120. For the subject, see Athens, N.M. 1736, which may be an imitation of the Eretria Painter (ARV2 1258, ---; Addenda 355); two unattributed examples in Berlin, 2419 (Choes and Anthesteria, p. 104, cat. no. 317, fig. 307) and 3242 (p. 106, cat. no. 339, fig. 310).
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