In a horizontal band on the neck a grazing deer is depicted inside a panel framed by vertical black lines. Above and below this band there are narrow horizontal black bands. The grazing deer as an iconographic theme was first introduced in vase-painting of the Geometric period by the Dipylon Painter. Usually the animal is a doe represented with its head lowered, possibly because this stance allowed the vase-painter to better render the doe’s long ears within the limited space of the metope.