In the center another mantled youth moves left. His pursed lips and closed eye suggest that he is engrossed in song. On the back left is a mantled youth with a fillet who moves right, a kylix in his raised left hand and a staff in the right held diagonally across his lower body. A chlamys is draped around his shoulders, and he wears a wreath. In front of him stands a fourth youth who moves to the left, an oinochoe in his right hand, a kylix in his left. A chlamys is draped over his left shoulder he wears a thick fillet. He holds the plectron in his right hand the fingers of his left rest on the strings. Next is a youth who stands to the right playing a barbiton from which a sash hangs. He carries a staff in his left hand diagonally across his chest, and with the right he manipulates his genitals. In front of him another youth with a chlamys draped in a similar fashion moves left, looking around. He stands to the right holding in his left hand a lyre with a sash hanging from it he leans on a staff held in the right hand. On the front left is a youth with a chlamys draped around his shoulders and a wreath around his head. This red-figure column-krater depicts the komos on both the front and back.
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