Wall fragment with turn of shoulder. Max. dim. 0.064.

Symposion. The fragment preserves the beard, part of the left forearm and hand, two fingers of the right hand, as well as a little drapery (probably a himation and the neckline of his chiton) of a male aulos-player to right, facing a symposiast (outstretched right forearm and hand). Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.

Normally the aulos-player is a standing girl; occasionally, the player is a youth, as on Richmond 62.1.3 by the Leningrad Painter (ARV2 1659, 3 bis; Addenda 261). For a man playing the aulos at a symposion, reclining not standing, see the one on an unattributed column-krater in Vienna from the second quarter of the 5th century (824: CVA, Vienna 2 [Österreich 2], pl. 89 [89]:1). It is uncertain whether the aulos-player on 231 stands or sits at the foot of the couch.

Later Mannerists, viii: Undetermined (ARV2 1120, 6: the inventory number omitted).