This panel represents the myth of how mankind learned wine making. Icarios offered the god Dionysus hospitality when he visited Athens and in return learnt how to grow vines and make wine. Before leaving Dionysus issued a warning to hide the wine well or disaster would happen. Icarios did not heed the warning and when returning home offered some shepherds (to the right of the scene) some wine. They quickly became drunk and thinking themselves to have been poisoned killed Icarios. The scene represents the moment shortly before Icarios is killed; the shepherds on the right are quite drunk (the inscription above their head says the first wine drinkers).