Six non-joining fragments of rim and bowl, one with swelling of handle base. Clay soft, somewhat flaky, light brown, non-micaceous.

Interior: black (5 Y 3/1--2.5/1) glaze, over which thin white bands, two in the bowl, one at the base of the lip.

Exterior: cream (2.5 Y 8/2) slip, over which decoration in black (5 Y 4/1--3/1) glaze and red (7.5 R 4/4, 7.5 R 4/8) paint. On rim, black ladder-and-dot pattern. At juncture of rim and body, red band. Between handles, birds to right with heads reversed. Foreparts and legs black, tail stripes in reserve, tail tips red. Below, to foot: bands, two thin black, one broad red, two thin black; black rays; bands, one thin black, one thin red.

Cup shape of Stibbe's form II. For the style, Stibbe (personal communication, 5 November 1972, 17 February and 23 April 1983) has written "compare also" the Painter of the Fish from Taranto; and has suggested a date "at the beginning of the career of . . . [that] Painter around 600 B.C., but it is impossible with so little evidence to be sure about this."