Pottery: red-figured bell-krater. (a) Type of Thetis bringing armour to Achilles. In the centre, a wreathed youth (Achilles?) sits in a chair en face, his feet on a footstool, a mantle around his legs; in his right he holds upright a spear, his left elbow rests on his knee, the chin resting on the left hand; he looks to right at Thetis (?), who offers him with her right a helmet, supporting on its edge with her left a shield (device, a snake arching to left). On left a woman stands with a phiale in left and oinochoe in right, wearing a saccos; Thetis has a broad fillet, radiated; each wears a long chiton, mantle, and necklace. (b) On the right a youth in a mantle leans on a staff, extending his right as if addressing two women on the left. The central one stands en face, looking to right and holding upright in her right a striated sceptre. On left a woman in a saccos stands holding out her right hand; the head of the central figure is indistinct. Large style. Purple wreath. Brown inner markings. Below a, maeander; round the handles, egg pattern; round the lip, a myrtle-wreath. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893