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

Rim fragment. Exterior: draped shoulder of a figure with a pair of hunting spears and part of a hand holding a garment. Interior: black. Once joined to 86.AE.270.3, which shows the head and shoulder of Peleus, who carries the pair of spears and the small figure of Achilles. 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, who also notes other joining fragments in Leipzig). This fragment belongs to side A.