Wall fragment. Burned (clay is gray). Glazed misfired reddish brown on outside. Max. dim. 0.06.

Pelias and daughters. The fragment shows the cauldron with the foreparts of the ram (head missing). On the right, a little bit of one Peliad (hand[?], part of vessel).

The small part of the vessel indicates that this Peliad is Medea, for the vessel would hold the magic potion with which she will rejuvenate the ram. For two fuller examples, see London, B.M. E 163 by the Copenhagen Painter, on which Medea's name is inscribed (ARV2 258, 26; Addenda 204; Reeder, Pandora, pp. 408--409, cat. no. 134) and a calyx-krater by the Kleophon Painter once in the Basel Market (H. Meyer, Medeia und die Peliaden: Eine attische Novella und ihre Entstehung, Rome 1980, pl. 13:1; the attribution is Cahn's: Münzen und Medaillen A.G. Basel, Antike Vasen, Sonderliste. Dezember 1977, pp. 23--24, no. 63).

For the subject, see Meyer, Medeia und die Peliaden, pp. 3--38; also LIMC VII, 1994, pp. 274--276, s.v. Pelias (E. Simon). The cup in Malibu, the J. Paul Getty Museum 79.AE.19 (Meyer, p. 7, cat. no. I Va 12, pl. 12), has now been published by M. Ohly-Dumm, "Medeas Widderzauber auf einer Schale aus der Werkstatt Euphronios," J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 9, 1981, pp. 5--21. Besides 558, add two more to Meyer's list (pp. 3--13): Boston 1970.567, a column-krater attributed by Bothmer to the Aegisthus Painter (C. Vermeule, Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 78, 1980, p. 33); a small fragment of a calyx-krater, Malibu, the J. Paul Getty Museum 80.AE.58 (M. Robertson, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 9, 1981, p. 22).