Wall fragment with a little of projecting rim. Glaze misfired reddish brown in places on outside; a bit greenish on inside. Max. dim. 0.074.

Fight(?). The fragment preserves the raised, bent right arm of a figure to left, with hand holding a thin object, which may be the shaft of a spear (there are two parallel relief lines) with the glaze slopped over. Just next to the hand at the break is a relief line that might be the outer edge of a helmet crest. At the right, at the break, is part of the ornamental configuration above the handle: a bit of the reserved line encircling a palmette, and below it two leaves of a lotus flower. On rim, ivy in black glaze. Relief contour.

For ivy on the rim, the closest parallels appear on the rims of these four calyx-kraters: Villa Giulia, no no. by Epiktetos (ARV2 77, 90; Addenda 169); Copenhagen, N.M. 126 by the Troilos Painter (ARV2 297, 11; Addenda 211); Louvre CA 5950, which may be by Psiax (p. 27, note 2 and p. 88, note 6 above); and Lecce, inv. 610 (CVA, Lecce 1 [Italia 4] pl. 10 [161]:1, 2). On these the vine is not as loosely drawn as it is on 249. Other more ornamental examples are Berlin 2180 by Euphronios (ARV2 13, 1; Paralip. 321, 1; Addenda 152; Euphronios, cat. no. 1); St. Petersburg inv. 1843 by Phintias (ARV2 23, 5; Paralip. 509, 5; Addenda 155); Istanbul, from Xanthos A 34.2628 (ARV2 33, 1; Addenda 157) and Oxford 1934.54 under Taranto 22868--9 (ARV2 33, 7; Addenda 157) both by Sundry Members of the Pioneer Group. For an encircled palmette-and-lotus configuration at the handle, see Louvre G 48 + New York, M.M.A. 1978.429.1:a--v by the Kleophrades Painter (ARV2 185, 33; Paralip. 340, 33; Addenda 187) and Basel, Cahn H.C. 537 by the Berlin Painter (Paralip. 344, 116 bis; Addenda 193); Louvre CA 5950; London Market (Cat. Sotheby's 1 July, 1969, no. 93).

The presence of traces of the handle configuration indicates that the warrior stood at the far right of the composition, perhaps as a back-up force to a fight taking place at the left.