Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 4 Chronology: | | Ca. 460-450 B.C. | Deposit: | | N 7:3 | Published Number: | | AV 30.4 | References: | | Object: P 21859
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Mended with the missing pieces restored in plaster and painted, notably much of the lower part of the body and most of the floor. Glaze abraded and misfired on mouth; abraded on neck on Side B. Rest. H. 0.60; diam. of mouth 0.315; max. diam. 0.44. C. Boulter, Hesperia 22, 1953, pl. 21:1; C. Boulter, Archaeology 10, 1957, p. 191.
A, man pursuing a woman, to right. He wears a himation and holds a scepter in his left hand; his right is outstretched. The woman looks back as she flees. She is clad in a chiton with a himation over it and wears a necklace. Around the head of each is a fillet. B, woman fleeing to right looking back, dressed the same way as the one on A. Below the figures on each side, stopped-maeander pattern with cross-squares. Tongue pattern around the root of each handle. Relief contour: A, profile of each figure, man's left wrist, scepter; B, throat and neck. White: fillets.
Closest in shape to Kyoto, Hashimoto, an unattributed amphora (CVA, Japan 1, pl. 1 [1]:1).
The Boreas Painter (ARV2 539, 41).
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