Wall and shoulder fragment with start of neck. Thin, brownish glaze here and there on inside. Max. dim. 0.069. H. A. Thompson, Hesperia 17, 1948, pl. 68:5; Choes and Anthesteria, p. 93, cat. no. 245 bis, fig. 388:g; F. Brommer, AA, 1965, col. 118, fig. 1; EAA 7, 1966, p. 1049, fig. 1177, s.v. Odisseo (E. Paribeni); R. Bianchi-Bandinelli and E. Parabeni, L'arte dell'antichitá Classica: Grecia, Torino 1976, fig. 450; F. Brommer, Odysseus: Die Taten und Leiden des Helden in antiker Kunst und Literatur, Darmstadt 1983, pl. 2:b; M. Geymonat, Eneide con episodi signativi di Iliade e Odissea, Bologna 1987, fig. 70; Prange, Niobidenmaler, p. 205, cat. no. N 126; T. McNiven, JHS 109, 1989, pl. 3:d; B. Andreae and C. P. Presicce [curators], Ulisse il mito e la memoria (Roma, Palazzo della Esposizioni 22-febbraio--2 settembre, 1996), Rome 1996, cat. no. 31.

Odysseus in Troy(?). Odysseus (head, outstretched right arm except for hand, most of his left arm, start of right leg) to left. In his left hand he holds both a cane and a crooked stick, the former resting on his shoulder. The grip of the cane overlaps his right upper arm (the lines are not drapery). What remains of his drapery is a sleeve and the end of a fold at the lower right. Above his head:

Preliminary sketch. Relief contour. Dilute glaze: hair and beard; eye; eye lashes; details on sleeve. Red or white (flaked): inscription.

For the subject, see Brommer, Heldensage³, 445, B 1; in more detail, with discussion of the various times Odysseus disguised himself, see Brommer, AA, 1965, cols. 115--119, where he opts for the scene on 689 as the one in which Odysseus is wounded by Thoas; also Brommer, Odysseus, pp. 34--35. Brommer has misunderstood the curved lines on Odysseus' right arm when he calls them welts or wounds inflicted by Thoas.

Manner of the Niobid Painter (ARV2 611, 40; Paralip. 396, 40; Addenda 268).