The top left panel shows Leda, the young and beautiful queen of Sparta, wife of Tyndareos, who, in the company of Lacedaemonian girls, is about to take a bath in the Eurotas river. She is being approached by Zeus disguised as a swan. We are told by ancient mythographers that this liaison resulted in the birth of the twins Castor and Pollux and of Helena, the most beautiful of all women. Personifications of Eurotas and of Lacedaemonia accompany the scene. On the left side of the picture, behind an altar, stands a male figure. He is most probably a satyr wearing a panther’s skin upon his shoulder and a wreath of long green leaves upon his head (destroyed). He holds an object reminiscent of a pedum (shepherd’s crook) or a double flute. This figure adds a dionysiac connotation to the scene.