The cup was found at Vulci and is now on display in the Cabinet des médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (inv.

It depicts Arkesilaos seated under a tent-like sheet and wearing an African hat.

Because of this dress style and another vase depicting the nymph Kyrene wrestling a lion, the Arkesilas Painter was initially assumed to have been active in North Africa.

For technological history, the depiction of weighing scales is of major significance, as their structure and use is shown.

Historically, the production of such imagery in Laconia is also important, in that it illustrates the close links between Sparta and North Africa.