In the centre of the composition is Dionysos turned to the left, reclining on a rock over which drapery is thrown. He leans on his left elbow; with his right hand he caresses a panther which fawns on his knees. In the left hand Dionysos appears to have held a cup and a thyrsos, of which traces appear behind his left shoulder. This figure is now entirely destroyed on the original. There is a considerable resemblance in the pose of Dionysos to that of the so-called Theseus of the east pediment of the Parthenon. On either side of Dionysos is a Satyr, seated on lower rocks. The Satyr on the right clasps his left knee with both hands. (Compare the figure on the east frieze of the Parthenon No. 26). His head was probably turned towards Dionysos. The Satyr on the left of the God rests his left hand on the rock behind him; his right knee is bent and the right leg drawn up under it; in his right hand he holds a thyrsos; his body and head are turned to the right. _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 24. [Sidenote: 2.] Next on the left is a Satyr advancing over rocky ground towards a large crater; in his right hand he holds an oinochoè, with which he is about to take wine from the crater; in his left hand has been a phialè; a fawn skin, _nebris_, hangs from his left shoulder. His head appears to have been turned towards Dionysos. On the opposite side of the vase stands a Satyr turned to the left, resting his elbows on the stump of a tree, over which is thrown a panther's skin; the top of a thyrsos appears above his right shoulder. He appears to have been bearded. This figure looks on at the destruction of the pirates which is represented in a series of groups on the left, and which we must suppose to have taken place on a rocky shore overlooked by the higher ground on which Dionysos reclines. _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 24. [Sidenote: 3.] A Satyr advances to the left with a burning torch, with which he is about to assail the fallen pirate of the next group. This Satyr is nude and bearded. His head is bound with a diadem. The head and left leg are now lost on the original. The next group on the left represents a pirate thrown on his hands and knees upon the rocks. On his back kneels a Satyr whose right arm is upraised to strike his prostrate foe with some weapon which is not clearly shown in the relief, but which was probably a pedum, or perhaps a branch. The Satyr has a panther's skin floating in the air, at his back. Between the legs is a lump of plaster, which is due to a fault in the moulding. _Mus. Marbles_, IX., pl. 23. [Sidenote: 4.]