This oil flask (round aryballos) is decorated in black-figure technique with four 'padded dancers' or 'komasts'. These characters are commonly associated with the drinking and revelry of the 'komos', a ritualistic drunken procession. They always appear on archaic Greek pottery wearing a distinctive tunic with a large belly and bottom which seems to be padded so as to exagerate their comic features. The vase is dated to the Early Corinthian period and is attributed to a painter near the Falstaff Painter by Amyx and Seeburg.