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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 8, s. 146, p. 132

Aegina. Chronology. Aktorione-Molione. Cocks. Amphora. Color paint. Column krater. Cooking jugs. Amphoriskos. Cooking Ware fabric. Analatos Painter. Corinthian fabric. Argive Monochrome Ware. Corinthian ... Agora 8 132 ... Athens, Agora of ... Chorus; of men ... Chorus; of women

[Agora Object] Agora XXX, no. 623

Three non-joining wall fragments. Dull, hard glaze on inside. Max. dim. a) 0.091, b) 0.075, c) 0.071. L. Talcott, Hesperia 8, 1939, pp. 268--269, figs. 1, 2 (the fragments have been relettered since this ... Ca. 470-460 B.C ... Fragment c (b) shows, at the far right, part of one laced shoe of someone standing to left; at the very top a small bit of relief contour that may be the bottom of a fold of drapery. ... White: face of mask. There does not seem to be enough of the figures preserved on 623 to determine the exact subject. ... Pickard-Cambridge (Dramatic Festivals, pp. 180--181) takes the figure on fragment b to be an actor, the other two, chorus men. Hammond and Moon (AJA 82, 1978, p. 375) suggested that the representation may reflect the scene in Aischylos' Seven against Thebes (lines 863--870), where the chorus tells of Antigone and Ismene approaching to mourn the death of Eteokles.