This Athenian amphora is decorated in silhouette technique with four friezes of stylized figures. The top frieze on the neck shows grazing deer. Beneath is a frieze showing a procession of men with long hair or helmet plumes. On the shoulder are grazing deer and a goat. In the main body frieze are four chariots with charioteers and a horse and rider.
It can be identified as a funeral amphora, rather than an amphora intended to be used to hold liquid, because the moulded snakes on the rim would make pouring the liquid difficult, and the deliberately cracked base meant that it was no longer water-tight. It would have been used as a funerary marker, and the scenes decorating the amphora should be interpreted as a funerary procession. Similar scenes appear on other Attic funerary vases of this period.
Attributed to the painter known as the Stathatou Hand (Painter of Athens 894) by Cook and Davison.