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321 - Love gift
love gift
DATE 480 - 460 BC
AUTHOR Aegisthus painter - Athens, Greece
MEDIA Ceramic - red figure calyx crater
SIZE Unknown
LOCATION Austria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum
NOTES A man presents a leg of mutton to a youth as an act of courtship. The scene is clearly erotic, in fact the man's walking stick pointing to the youth's hoop is allusive to the desire of the man to penetrate the youth.
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