The pictorial themes on the outside of this drinking bowl refer to the everyday life of an aristocratic upper class, on the one hand to horseback riding and on the other to the drinking party of three men lying on clinics in the dining room.
Attic black-figure drinking bowls of this type are named after one of their sites, the necropolis of Siana on Rhodes. They were the predominant type of bowl in Athens in the second quarter of the 6th century BC. (AVS)