Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 895 Chronology: | | Ca. 420 B.C. | Deposit: | | N 10:1 | Published Number: | | AV 30.895 | References: | | Object: P 4942
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Half of body with start of shoulder. Some of the white is very thin. P.H. 0.105; max. width 0.057.
Woman at tomb. The woman (preserved but for her right arm) wears a chiton and stands to right before the tumulus. The stele, bedecked with two fillets, is supported by a two-stepped base. Above, border of esses between two lines top and bottom. On the shoulder (mostly flaked): rays. Red: fillets. Dilute glaze: lines above and below figures. Matte drawing: yellowish brown.
The shape of the stele is that of Nakayama's Type A III, which has a plain shaft without a crown molding (Nakayama, Lekythen, p. 259), especially A-III-12, a small lekythos from a child's grave in the Kerameikos (AM 79, 1964, Beil. 56:2).
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