Rim fragment. Glaze misfired reddish on outside; much abraded on rim and on neck. Max. dim. 0.092.

Below the torus rim, chain of lyre lotuses and encircled palmettes.

For this ornament, only with lyre palmettes, cf. a calyx-krater once in a New York private collection (now Malibu, the J. Paul Getty Museum 92.AE.6) signed by Syriskos as painter: A, Pantelea seated between Okeanos and Dionysos; B, Themis between Balos (seated) and Ephaphos (all names inscribed) and the namepiece of the Tyszkiewicz Painter, Boston 97.368 (ARV2 290, 1; Paralip. 355, 1; Addenda 210). 259 is too abraded to be sure if it is by one of these two painters, but it is fairly close.