Three non-joining fragments, a and b of wall with turn of shoulder, c of neck. Burned (clay is gray). Max. dim. a) 0.032, b) 0.051, c) 0.048.

Fragment a (illustrated) preserves (on the shoulder) the feet and lower drapery of a figure standing frontally. On the body just below the shoulder on a and b, stopped-maeander pattern with checkerboard-squares, a dot in each reserved square. Fragments b and c preserve a bit of the ornament on the shoulder: c, most of an encircled upright palmette; b, parts of two fronds.

Figures on the shoulders of red-figured lekythoi are not so very common. They may appear on those whose bodies are also figured or whose bodies are solid black except for a band of ornament at the junction with the shoulder and often another towards the foot. To the list compiled by Oakley (Phiale Painter, p. 53, note 361), add: Body with figures. Manner of the Berlin Painter(?), once London Market (Cat. Christie, 28 April, 1993, cat. no. 13); two by the Bowdoin Painter: Brussels A 3132 (ARV2 681, 91; Addenda 279) and Brussels A 3131 (ARV2 682, 107; Addenda 279): the figures on the shoulder are silhouette on white ground; Taranto 52318: body: woman with wool basket; shoulder: woman bending forward to right (I wish to thank Brian F. Cook for calling this example to my attention). Body black. Achillean: Once Freiburg (J. D. Beazley, Greek Vases in Poland, Oxford 1928, p. 49, postscript). Unattributed: 838. Uncertain if body decorated or black: Paros 96, probably by the Phiale Painter (AA 1995, p. 499, cat. no. 7). There is not enough of the body preserved on 837 to know if it was figured or black. For black-bodied lekythoi, see Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi, pp. 115--128, esp. pp. 124--127: the discussion is not limited to figures on the shoulders but also includes patterns.