In Hesperia, XXIV (1955), 305–19 (with plate 85) Sir John Beazley published five fragments of a hydria from Corinth dated ‘between 480 and 450, and in all probability between 470 and 460 or 450’.

Fragment A represents the upper part of a man in oriental dress, with both arms bent at the elbow, forearms raised, apparently supporting the body by grasping two vertical staves, one on each side. The lower part of his body is concealed by the upper part of a pyre consisting of courses of logs laid alternately lengthwise and head-on. ‘The pyre is alight: flames are shown in red.’ Partly concealed by the man's uplifted left arm are the hand and wrist, outstretched horizontally, of a second Oriental (the cuff of his sleeve is visible); this second Oriental is evidently helping the first (who is helping himself by means of the staves) to rise from the blazing pyre.