Shoulder fragment with start of neck. Glaze cracked in places, has a greenish cast in others. Max. dim. 0.175.

Komos. Head, shoulders, right arm, and hand of a komast to left. Around his head is a wreath; over his left shoulder, a himation. His head is tilted back, and he holds a stick in his outstretched right hand (just the curved grip remains). At the far left, part of the head of another (not illustrated), probably facing. Above, tongue pattern on the shoulder at the junction with the neck. Panel framed by ivy. Dilute glaze: moustache and loose locks of beard. Red: wreath.

Not from the same column-krater as 224 which is also a shoulder fragment, but has glaze on the underside, while 178 does not. Also the clay of each is slightly different.

Earlier Mannerists, ii: The Leningrad Painter (ARV1 374, 18; ARV2 568, 23).