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, who also notes other joining fragments in Leipzig). This fragment belongs to side B and gives part of the seated figure, Agamemnon, and the woman standing behind him, likely Briseis.