Group of Attic Red-Figure Coral-Red Phiale Fragments (21)

Onesimos

about 480 B.C.

Terracotta

J. Paul Getty Museum

The figural decoration on the inside of the phiale shows a combat between Amazons and Greeks. It may depict the battle between Achilles and Penthesilea, but not enough survives to ascertain this with certainty. A band of coral-red between black lines decorates both the interior rim area and the zone around the now-missing omphalos of the phiale. The exterior is decorated with a black zone at the rim and around the now-missing omphalos, and the area in between with coral-red.