Attic Red-Figure Cup Fragment (Exterior)

The interior preserves the head and shoulders of a bearded warrior, moving to the right. With his shield on his left shoulder, he wears a cuirass decorated with a palmette and drapery over his right shoulder. His Corinthian helmet is worn off the face, and a wreathed scalp lies on top of it. Gloria Ferrari ( "Myth and Genre on Athenian Vases," Classical Antiquity 22.1 (April 2003), suggests the figure may be Achilles wearing the scalp of the Trojan prince, Troilos. To the left of the warrior’s head is an inscription, ‘[Euphroni]os made [it]’. Around the tondo, meander pattern with chequer squares.

The exterior preserves a Centauromachy. From left: foot of a fallen Lapith, hind leg of a Centaur, and a greaved leg of a Lapith who thrusts his spear into the flank of a fallen Centaur (seen in rear view). Blood spurts from the wound.