Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 1181
Chronology:   Probably first quarter of the 4th century B.C.
Deposit:   E 2:3
Published Number:   AV 30.1181
References:   Object: P 14632
Three non-joining fragments of top side, a with grooves setting it off from the side. Max. dim. a) 0.066, b) 0.067, c) 0.037.

On each side, head of woman, one to left, the other to right, probably facing the spout. Fragment a (illustrated) preserves the face and hair of one with a spiral ornament in front. Fragments b and c each give part of the other: b, a bit of the head with sakkos; c, the nose, mouth, and chin. In front of her, a spiral ornament. Below the heads, reserved line.

For human heads on the top side of an askos, see the list compiled by Hoffmann, Sexual and Asexual Pursuit, p. 13, cat. nos. Oa 1--5. Add: Capua P 76 (CVA, Capua 2 [Italia 23], pl. 19 [1094]:1); Warsaw 198535 (CVA, Varsovie 3 [Pologne 6], pl. 47 [278]:2, 4, 6: A, the head facing the forepart of griffin; B, the head facing the forepart of a panther); Ferrara inv. 22291 = T.408 by the Painter of Ferrara T.408 (ARV2 1504, ---, 1; Addenda 383: A, the head facing a swan; B, forepart of a panther); Ferrara inv. 23460 = T.596 from the Group of the Cambridge Askos (ARV2 1505, 6; Addenda 383; Massei, Gli askoi . . . Spina, p. 77, cat. no. 56, pl. 20:1: A, the head facing the forepart of a panther; B, a swan; Paphos no no. [ Δελτ 24, 1969 [1970], pl. 495: δ ]).