Shoulder fragment with turn of body. Max. dim. 0.088. M. Lang, Graffiti in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 14), rev. ed., Princeton 1988, p. 13, fig. 34; R. Lamberton and S. Rotroff, Birds of the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book 22), Princeton 1985, p. 20, fig. 38.

The Battle between the Pygmies and the Cranes. At the left is a bit of the outspread wing, arched neck, and the head of a crane, then a pygmy (top of head, lower right leg missing) to right, a round shield seen from the inside carried on his left arm. Next is another crane (head missing), also to right, seemingly unperturbed; and on the far right, a pygmy (head and arms missing but for contour of right arm just at the break), down on one knee, attacking a crane. There is rough terrain beneath the feet of the first pygmy. Reserved line below figures. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: muscles of pygmies; cover feathers of crane.

The closest parallel to the scene on 593 is the one on the shoulder of a kalpis by the Leningrad Painter, Bologna 169 (ARV2 571, 80). For the subject, see RE XXIII², cols. 2064--2074, esp. 2065--2070, s.v. Pygmaioi (E. Wüst); LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 594--601, s.v. Pygmaioi (V. Dasen).

Earlier Mannerists, viii: Undetermined (ARV2 587, 63; Addenda 263).