Terracotta oinochoe (jug) with a seated boy
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4th century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
The child sits under a grape arbor holding an oinochoe in his left hand, a cake and cornucopia in his right. The clearly Dionysiac iconography connects the vase with the festival of the Anthesteria, the new wine, in which children participated.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th century BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1941
