On one side of the pelike the winged Boreas rushes from the left and has put his left arm around the shoulder of the Athenian king's daughter, holding two spears with the right. Boreas wears a fox fur cap (alopekis), chiton and a patterned coat. Oreithyia is dressed with a long-sleeved chiton and a tiara in her hair; she also wears jewelry around her arms and neck. In the facial features of Oreithyia there are no signs of terror or anxiety. On the right, the elderly father of Oreithyia, the Athenian king Erechtheus. On the left, a companion of Oreithyia is depicted. There can be read between the handles of the vase three inscriptions naming the figures; ΣVΘΙΝΑ, ΒΟΡΕΑΣ and ΟΡΙΕΙΘΥΑ. The pelike was used as a funerary vase (urn) in Etruria, Italy.