Center of cup preserving part of wall with vertically incised ribs and central boss which is marked off by a scraped groove outside. The boss itself is in the form of a plastic negroid head. Glazed all over.

For the negro's head see the calyx-cup Amsterdam 395: Arch. Anz., 1917, cols. 59-60, figs. 5-6; CVA 2(2) Scheurleer pl. 4(86) 2-3; Bull. Vereen. XXXII, 1957, p. 62, fig. 2. For negroes' heads on the bowl of a phiale, see the Panagyurishte gold phiale: Balkan Studies, III, 1962, pp. 185-200, especially, p. 191 and pls. VI-VII, 1 and Bull. Metr. Mus., XXI, 1962-63, p. 163, figs. 15-16 and cf. p. 164, fig. 17.