Wall fragment. Glaze greenish on inside, rather flaked and abraded on outside on figures. Max. dim. 0.093. R. S. Young, Hesperia 20, 1951, pl. 80:4; Ages of Homer, p. 459, fig. 28.16.

Uncertain subject. In the center is an altar surmounted by two moldings, each decorated with an egg pattern with dots. Resting against the altar is the upper part of a staff or scepter (it is not a kerykeion because the top is closed). In front of the altar is the calf of one leg of someone in oriental dress as well as a bit of drapery and part of an object that looks like

the tip of a scabbard. At the right, on the other side of the altar, is the right leg and a bit of ornate drapery of a man, and on the far left, overlapping the altar, is the bent knee of someone else, to right. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: egg pattern.

The subject might be the Death of Priam from a large Iliupersis. Without much to go on, this identification is tenuous at best, but 389 has certain similarities to the one on an unattributed contemporary volute-krater from Spina, Ferrara T.136 VP (P. Arias, "Dalle necropoli di Spina: La tomba 136 di Valle Pega," Rivista dell' Istituto Nazionale, n.s. 4, 1955 [ pp. 95--178], esp. pp. 100--109, 162--166). Compare esp. p. 101, figs. 7, 8.

389 may be from the same krater as 388, which is also by the Talos Painter. The scale is comparable, but there is just not enough preserved of either vase to be sure, and they are best kept apart.

The Talos Painter [Bothmer]. Compare, especially, the namepiece, Ruvo, Jatta 1501 (ARV2 1338, 1; Paralip. 481, 1; Addenda 366): there, the decoration on Poseidon's himation is very similar to that of the right figure on 389.