The Beautiful Child, Vase Painting

Branko van Oppen
by The Trustees of the British Museum
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Vase painting (on a white-ground wine pitcher) depicting a young woman spinning wool from a distaff, twisting a thread between the fingers of her right hand. Found in Locri, created in Attica c. 490-470 BCE. On the (viewer's) right, an inscription reads: ΗΕΠΑΙΣΚΑΛΕ (ή παΐς καλή, "the beautiful girl").

British Museum, London.

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Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2019, June 15). The Beautiful Child, Vase Painting. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10921/the-beautiful-child-vase-painting/

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