On a white background are depicted the busts of two young men taking part in a literary-musical competition. On the left, there is the young man with a dark complexion who wears, raised on his head, the white mask of the hapalòs neaniskos and wears a white tunic with a wide purple sash on the front. On the right is a maiden playing the zither; she wears a pink tunic and a light green mantle and has a hairstyle consisting of a bandage holding corymbs of ivy reminiscent of the Dionysian sphere.