Vatican Museums

On the inner tondo a Maenad is depicted with a thyrsus and a snake wrapped around one arm. On the exterior two scenes are illustrated: A - possibly a battle between Heracles and the Amazons (very incomplete); B - Nestor, Antilochos and a scene of divining.
Nestor, identified with an inscription, is next to a youth with a short tunic, who offers a warrior the liver of a sacrificial victim for extispicium (divining through the examination of the liver of a sacrificed animal). The warrior, who wears a breastplate and chiton, a Corinthian helmet and Hoplitic shield (with a bull as an episemon), may be identified as Antilochos, son of Nestor and beloved of Achilles, and destined to perish at the hand of Memnon [cf. Amphora of the Painter of the Vatican Mourner]. On the right the scene is completed with a quadriga, which a figure wearing a long robe is about to mount; this personage is identifiable as Iris, messenger of the Gods. A young cloaked figure with an ivy leaf crown is depicted frontally.
The work is attributed to Oltos, one of the key figures of early red-figure production, who favoured the decoration of kylikes, with recurrent epic themes from the Trojan cycle and Dionysiac subjects.