Agora Object: Agora XXX, no. 892 Chronology: | | Probably second quarter of the 5th century B.C. | Deposit: | | E 14 | Published Number: | | AV 30.892 | References: | | Object: P 6100
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Most of neck, about half of shoulder, start of body preserved. P.H. 0.095; diam. at shoulder 0.077.
Woman at tomb. Of the figured decoration, all that remains is part of the head and bent raised right arm, the hand touching the hair of a woman to left and in front of her the top of the shaft and most of the finial of the stele. Above, border of esses. On the shoulder: rays; above, tongue pattern. Dilute glaze: lines above and below esses. Matte drawing: yellowish brown for outlines and hair.
The stele seems to have had a plain triangular finial, as Nakayama, Lekythen, p. 263, B-I, esp. New York, M.M.A. 41.162.118 by the Tymbos Painter (ARV2 757, 70; Nakayama, p. 213, B-I-4).
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