Wall fragment with start of rim. Narrow reserved band on inside near top. Max. dim. 0.044.

Wreathed head of man emerging from between a pair of wings. Preliminary sketch. Relief contour: profile. White (flaked): stem and alternate berries of wreath. Dilute glaze: part of wings.

The identity of the figure is puzzling because the presence of the beard rules out the usual characters who appear in a winged context, namely Triptolemos and Hyacinth, also Bellerophon and, occasionally, Apollo (for the latter, see the namepiece of the Painter of Vienna 202, in which the god rides a griffin: ARV2 1523, 1; Addenda 385). A possibility for the figure on 346 is Hephaistos, who appears on a winged throne in the tondo of Berlin 2273 by the Ambrosios Painter (ARV2 174, 31; Addenda 184) and in the tondo of a contemporary unattributed cup, Florence 81600 (LIMC IV, 1988, p. 633, no. 44, pl. 388, s.v. Hephaistos [A. Hermary and A. Jacquemin]).