Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1534
Chronology:   Ca. 510-500 B.C.
Deposit:   G 12
Published Number:   AV 30.1534
References:   Object: P 3692
Floor fragment with start of stem on underside. Glaze misfired grayish on inside, especially contour line. Max. dim. 0.078; est. diam. of tondo 0.101.

Archer (legs, right bent sharply back), moving to left. At his left side hangs a closed quiver; directly in front of the quiver is a narrow, reedlike object and to the left of it, one end of a bow that he probably held in his outstretched left hand (now missing). The string of the bow is a thin incised line. At the left break is part of an object that is unintelligible (something probably overlapped by the tondo border). Just below the toes of his right foot, a bit of the narrow reserved line around the tondo. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.

The composition of the archer was probably similar to the one in the tondo of Copenhagen, Thor. 100/Villa Giulia/Florence 1 B 24 by Oltos (ARV2 60, 67; Paralip. 327, 67; Addenda 165). The thin, narrow object may be the end of a battle axe. Cf., e.g., Munich 2308 by Euthymides (ARV2 26, 2; Addenda 156); Louvre G 35 by the Hermaios Painter (ARV2 111, 13; Addenda 173); and London, B.M. GR 1836.2--24.101 = E 45 by a painter from the Proto-Panaitian Group (ARV2 316, 8; Addenda 214; CVA, London 9 [Great Britain 17], pl. 4 [781]).