Red-Figure Skyphos Fragment (part of 93.AE.54)

Exterior: part of a draped upper arm and shoulder of a figure facing to the right, likely a woman wearing a chiton with a cloak over her shoulders. Behind the draped figure are woolen fillets added in red. The fillets attach to a priest’s staff shown in a pair of joining fragments (Leipzig T 3725 and 95.AE.31.2). Interior: black. This fragment belongs to a partially reconstructed skyphos (93.AE.54) that depicts on side A: Peleus and Thetis, with their child Achilles, meeting Cheiron, in the company of Apollo, and on side B: a priest holding a temple key and a staff, a woman shaking hands with a seated figure, and two standing figures—perhaps the priest Chryses meeting Agamemnon to recover his daughter Chryseis (see Williams, 1997). This fragment belongs to side B.