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

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, who also notes other joining fragments in Leipzig). This fragment belongs to side A.