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

Exterior: section of drapery of a woman to left, standing behind a draped stool. Interior: black. Joins to two fragments: 93.AE.54.4, which adds more of the circular textile that covers the chair’s seat and some of the himation worn by the figure seated on it, and a Leipzig fragment, which completes the chair legs and includes the feet of the standing female figure. 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 and gives part of the seated figure, Agamemnon, and the woman standing behind him, likely Briseis.