Almost colorless glass, but with pale yellowish green tint; blown (two gathers), facet-cut, polished, and engraved. Beaker: conical. Rim outsplayed, cracked off and ground; wall tapers; floor flat; shallow conical foot, hollow, with ground edge; no pontil mark. Decorated with continuous figural frieze, with borders above and below. Upper border: between pair incised lines on rim and one raised countersunk line on upper wall, two rows of about sixty narrow oval facets; those in upper row slope down from right to left, while those in lower row slope down from left to right, together making chevron-like motifs. Frieze: two figures, with vegetation and other motifs, all of which have outlines and some details indicated by broad, polished cuts and facets, and most details indicated by shallow linear cuts; (A) male, naked or partially naked, running from viewer's left to right, his torso shown frontally and his head in profile, turned back to look behind him; near his left foot, ball-like object; he is identified by inscription in Greek capitals on either side of head: iota, pi, pi, omicron, mu, epsilon round form| nu / eta, sigma round form|, Hippomenes; in front of him, (B) stump of tree, with spray of three leafy branches sprouting from it; in front of tree and behind figure (A), (C) female, running from left to right, evidently in pursuit of (A), naked except for short, skirt-like garment, her torso shown frontally and her head evidently in profile, facing forward; she holds sword in right hand and reaches forward with left hand, as though trying to apprehend figure (A); beneath her left arm, garland or some other circular object, apparently with ribbons; she is identified by inscription in Greek capitals on either side of head: alpha, tau, alpha lambda / alpha, nu| tau, eta, Atalan|te; between (A), (B), and (C), small comma-like motifs, sometimes in pairs, and scribbled suggestions of vegetation. Lower border consists of horizontal groove, which in effect is ground-line of frieze, and, below this, band of thirty-one rather uneven narrow vertical facets.
