Two non-joining fragments, a of wall with start of return, b of handle, round in section. Thin glaze on inside of a. Surface pitted. Max. dim. a) 0.059, b) 0.115. Prange, Niobidenmaler, p. 216, cat. no. GN 60.

Fragment a preserves the head of a youth, perhaps Hermes, to left, wearing a petasos, part of his right forearm with the hand touching the brim (about to doff it[?]). On fragment b, at the root of the handle, there is part of an upright palmette. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour.

Perhaps similar in composition to that on side A of a pelike in the manner of the Niobid Painter once in the Athens Market (ARV2 610, 25), now in a Berlin private collection (Paralip. 396, 25; Addenda 268; Prange, Niobidenmaler, p. 213, cat. no. GN 40). There, however, the youth does not touch the brim of his petasos. This is an odd gesture that I have not been able to parallel with a figure wearing a petasos, but compare the warrior on a lekythos by the Terpaulos Painter who puts his hand to the visor of his helmet (Agrigento 23: ARV2 308, 5; Paralip. 357, 5; Addenda 212).

Manner of the Niobid Painter (ARV1 960, 27 bis; ARV2 612, 45).