On one side of the skyphos, Bendis, accompanied by a fawn, is depicted to the right, along with Themis (one of the Titans and personification of justice, divine order, fairness, law, and custom). The goddess wears short chitoniskos and nebris (fawn skin) tied at the waist, an alopeke (fox fur cap), and endromides (soft boots). She holds two spears in her left hand; that is why she is also called “Dilonchos” (δύο λόγχες, two lances). Themis approaches her, holding a torch in her right hand and a kanoun (wicker basket) with sacrificial offerings in her left. Many scholars regarded the scene as the welcoming of the cult of the Thracian goddess Bendis to Athens and associated it with her festivals.

On the other side, Artemis appears on the right, along with the mythical hero Kephalus. She wears a short chitoniskos and endromides. She holds two spears in her right hand. She differs from the Thracian goddess in that she does not wear alopeke and nebris. Kephalus is sitting to the left. He holds two spears in his left hand and an oinochoe in the other, with which he pours out a libation to the hermaic pillar in front of him. Τhe depiction of the mythical hero Kephalus was perhaps chosen as an indirect allusion to the Athenian Kephalus. Socrates was hosted in his house after the first festival of Bendis that took place in Piraeus (Plato, Politeia 327-328).