Terracotta oon (egg)
Washing Painter
ca. 420–410 BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art
Youth abducting woman Eggs are well attested as funerary offerings—real eggs, artistic counterparts in marble and terracotta or, as here, diminutive vases of egg shape. This example was found with another, now in Athens, and both originally had lids. The abduction scene has been interpreted as depicting Paris and Helen. The shape is particularly pertinent to the subject because Helen was hatched from an egg.
- Artist
- Washing Painter
- Date
- ca. 420–410 BCE
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Culture
- Greek, Attic
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1971
