Erotic scene

Wine Jug (Oenochoe) by the Shuvalov Painter (an Attic vase painter of the red-figure style, active between 440 and 410 BC):

An Erotic Minature, Altes Museum Berlin

A young man and a young woman will soon be joined in the fact of the love-making. Such a depiction would be unheard of for reputable Athenian female citizens: Thus the woman must be hetaera (courtesan), the scene must be taking place at the symposium (banquet) or in a brothel.

H. 14 cm