Fragment of shoulder and bowl, with handle stump. Delicate construction. Clay hard, fine, tan, non-micaceous. Interior and exterior, light yellow cream (10 YR 7/3) slip, over which decoration in black (dark sepia, 10 YR 2/1) glaze and red (10 R 4/3) paint.

Interior, from top to bottom: lower part of black zone or band; thin black band; black birds to right with heads reversed (upper part of one, edge of head of second preserved).

Exterior: handle zone bordered by thin black bands. Around handle root(s), black panel(s) flanked by narrow stripes. Between handles, frieze with birds to left. Below handle zone, frieze of birds to left with heads reversed, bordered by thin black bands. Bird foreparts and legs black, tail stripe in reserve, tail tip red. Below, thin black band above black rays.

Cup shape of Stibbe's form II. For the style, Stibbe (personal communication, 5 November 1972, 17 February 1983, 23 March 1983) has written "compare also" the Painter of the Fish from Taranto, and has noted that the inside border "seems to be of exactly the same type as that of the other cups in Taranto with figure decoration. Also the birds show the same details . . . ." For the tondo, Stibbe proposed "a concentric composition of standing birds around a small medallion." He has suggested a date "at the beginning of the career of the Painter [of the Fish from Taranto] around 600 B.C., but it is impossible with so little evidence to be sure about it."

The color differences of the slip of Lak 2 and Lak 3 suggest that they belong to two different cups.