An Attic black-figure skyphos Near the Diosphos Painter, circa 500-475 B.C. Both sides depicting a battle scene between palmettes, side A with hoplites battling with spears as an unarmed Scythian figure escapes to the right, side B with warriors retreating from a central Scythian figure on a horse, the ground with dotted vines, details incised and in added red, 12cm high, 30.3cm diam. inc. handles