With the term Magenta Class, J. Beazley was the first to identify a group of shaped vessels with a purplish pink pigment on the surface. Production centres were localized in Apulia, Campania, Sicily and Etruria, in Greece, Egypt and Cyprus, on the shores of the Black Sea and in Asia Minor.

The rooster is part of the funerary accoutrements for a child. The type of the goose is not well known; the only comparisons are with an example found at Delos and one from an unknown location.