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Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)
Oinochoe, chous
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 159
Man with lyre and staff, woman with lamp, on opposite sides of doorThe subject concerns an Athenian reveler at the end of a bibulous evening. There has been considerable debate as to whether the man is returning home or calling on a hetaira (prostitute). Of exceptional architectural interest is the abbreviated depiction of the front of a house with the solid door and the tiled roof.
Richter, Gisela M.A. 1939. "Two Athenian Jugs." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 34(10): pp. 231-32, fig. 2.