Shoulder fragment with start of neck. Grainy glaze on inside. Max. dim. 0.10.

Return of Hephaistos. The fragment shows the slightly bowed head of Hephaistos (with ivy wreath) and the upper part of the head and neck of his mule or donkey. Above, tongue pattern at junction of neck. Relief contour: profile and nape.

For the subject, see Brommer, Hephaistos, pp. 10--16 and 201--202 for a list of representations in Attic red figure; more recently, LIMC IV, 1988, pp. 637--645, 652--654, s.v. Hephaistos (A. Hermary); also 288.