Wall fragment from turn of shoulder. Glaze thin and dull on inside. Max. dim. 0.055.

Satyr (part of face, beard, ear, and hair) to right, wearing a spotted feline skin. Overlapping the locks of hair at the break is a thin, narrow object. Preliminary sketch. Red: two dots on object.

It is unclear what the object is at the top of the fragment. It is too thin and in the wrong position to be the satyr's ear, and it is improperly placed for a fillet. It looks as though it might be an aulos, but it is too high in the composition to be played by anyone. Conceivably, it might be the tail of a serpent held high by a maenad. Cf., e.g., the maenad with the fawn skin over her chiton who holds both a thyrsos and a snake on Munich 8732 = 2344 by the Kleophrades Painter (ARV2 182, 6; Paralip. 340, 6; Addenda 186); also the huge serpent held by Dionysos on Louvre Cp 10748, where the god attacks a falling giant (ARV2 187, 55; Addenda 188).

There is something mildly Kleophradean about 203. Cf. esp. the aulos-playing satyr who wears a spotted pantherskin on Harvard 1960.236 (ARV2 185, 31; Addenda 187).