Lycurgus is depicted on the lower part of the vessel, wearing a cap made of the skin of a panther's head. He wears only chlamys, endromides (closed shoes) and has a sword at his side. In right hand he brandishes a double-edged axe and with his left he seizes his wife by the hair. She has fallen on the ground, raising both hands to thrust away Lycurgus' arm. She wears double necklace, bracelets, long chiton, embroidered himation and white sandals. Blood flows from a wound in her left breast. On the left is a youth, upbraiding Lycurgus with gesture of despair, and behind him advances a paidagogos. On the right a male and female figure carry off one of Lycurgus' dead sons. The figures look back at Lycurgus with an expression of sorrow. The dead son is wounded on his breast. A stream of blood flows from the wound.

On the upper part of the vessel, Apollo is depicted over an altar seated while playing his lyre. To his left there is a winged Lyssa (the spirit of madness and insanity), having two snakes round her left arm preparing to attack. On the extreme right there is Hermes and on the extreme left probably Ares and a local Nymph.