Floor fragment with stem and start of foot. Small area of greenish glaze on outside that may come from stacking in the kiln. P.H. 0.04; max. dim. 0.075; est. diam. of tondo 0.10.

I, archer (arms, body, both legs except for feet), kneeling to left. He is nude except for a kidaris (one flap hanging down across his left shoulder). A closed quiver suspended from a baldric over his right shoulder hangs at his left side. His strung bow was slipped over his outstretched left arm. Preliminary sketch. Reserved line for tondo border. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: muscles. Red: bow and string; part of baldric; transverse line on quiver.

In CB ii, p. 28, Beazley includes 1517 in his list of archers who test an arrow by looking along it. What remains of the archer's arms on 1517 suggests that they were positioned somewhat like those of the standing archer in the tondo of Boston, M.F.A. 10.207 by Onesimos (ARV2 321, 21; Addenda 215). This cup also demonstrates how the archer of 1517 held his bow, for it is clear that it is suspended from his left forearm.

In Addenda and Corrigenda, p. 1952, to ARV2 one 116--117, Beazley says that 1517 "looks like a superior work of the Pithos Painter"; not in ARV2.