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Date : approx. between 420 and 410 B.C.
Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin (1971)
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Greek Antiquities
Container
Vitrine : V01
Area related
Attique (Greece)
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Eggs are well attested as funerary offerings - real eggs, artistic counterparts in marble and terracotta or, as here, diminutive vases of egg shape. 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.
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