Two non-joining fragments, a of neck and shoulder, b of rim, neck and shoulder. Max. dim. a) 0.095, b) 0.085.

Fragment a preserves the filleted head of a man and the head of a muzzled horse, both to right. Above, tongue pattern at the junction with the neck. Fragment b gives more of the tongue pattern and below it the top of the head of a figure to right, who seems to wear a garment drawn up over the top of his or her head. On top side of rim, lotus buds with dots in the interstices. Relief contour. Incised line for hair of each figure and for contour of horse's mane. Red: fillet; mane; two splashes below the head of the horse; band on inside just below rim.

The presence of a horse wearing a muzzle suggests that the scene on fragment a is the harnessing of a chariot team. If so, this would be one of the trace horses, for the standard composition shows both pole horses already harnessed and one or both of the trace horses being led up. For the subject, see M. B. Moore, AK 29, 1986, pp. 107--114. One should not, however, completely rule out the possibility that this horse is a mount. Harnessing scenes are very rare in red figure; the only ones known to me thus far are: Munich 2420 from the Pezzino Group (ARV2 32, 3; CVA, 5 [Deutschland 20], pl. 221 [936]:3; Mind and Body, p. 312, no. 199; Addenda 157); Vatican 16575 (506) by Epiktetos (ARV2 73, 27; Addenda 168); and Louvre G 196 by the Troilos Painter (ARV2 296, 2). If the subject on 164 is a harnessing scene, one would expect to see part of the rest of the team or perhaps a bit of the charioteer. Scenes that show horses being led appear fairly frequently in Late Archaic red figure, but in these the horse is not muzzled but already bridled. The only parallel known to me for a muzzled mount being led is the left horse on Psiax's amphora in Philadelphia 5399 (ARV2 7, 3). The other horse in this scene is bridled.

Sundry Very Early Red-figure Pots by Various Painters (ARV1 14 τ ; ARV2 11, 6).