We clearly see the artist’s scheme for decorating the tall vertical black panels that separate the dominant cinnabar red panels. A female figure stands beneath a golden tripod base flanked by two thin columns made of twisted gold wire. Beneath is a mythological scene featuring Apollo, Python, and Diana at Delphi. To right and left are the edges of the predelle with scenes of cupids and psyches.

Python (also called Typhon) is wound around the omphalos (literally “navel”; the Greeks believed that the navel of the earth was located at the sanctuary at Delphi), its head in a pool of blood. Behind the omphalos Apollo’s bow and quiver hang on a column. To the left a white bull turns toward a woman who is crowning him. The woman is looking to the group of the right of the omphalos. The first is a bearded priest, surprised by what he sees. Next to him is Apollo, nude but for a chlamys (short cape) and sandals. Laurel crowns his head and he has a light blue halo. He stands in the position of the citharaidos, that is, he is playing the cithara (lyre). With both hands he plays the six strings on the lyre. At the extreme right is his sister Diana (Artemis), wearing high boots and a green chiton.