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

Rim fragment. Exterior: the head and shoulder of Peleus, to left, who carries a pair of hunting spears and the small figure of Achilles; the top of this head, his ear and a red cloak over the back of his head are preserved. Peleus wears a chlamys tied at his shoulder and a petasos behind his head (the red string around his neck is preserved). There are also parts of Peleus’s name, written in retrograde. Interior: black. Once joined to 86.AE.270.2, which shows the ends of the hunting spears and part of a hand holding a garment. 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 A.