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

Exterior: a figure in a himation with a two lined border faces to the right; behind he holds a specially shaped rod with a ball-like terminal that is in fact a temple key, identifying the figure as a priest. Interior: black. This fragment joins to 77.AE.21.11, which has three woolen fillets in added red that join to the temple key’s upper section. 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 the right hand of the priest Chryses holding a temple key.