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title: Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise
author: The Trustees of the British Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12751/red-figured-jug---girl-playing-with-tortoise/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise

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## Image File

[![Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/12751.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/12751.jpg)

## Image Caption

Red-figured chous (jug). Girl playing with tortoise: in her left hand she holds a white oinochoe; in the right she holds out a tortoise, by a string tied to its hind-leg, to a spaniel to right which looks up at it. 360-350 BCE, Puglia.

## Cite This Work

### APA
Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2020, September 15). Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12751/red-figured-jug---girl-playing-with-tortoise/>
### Chicago
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise." *World History Encyclopedia*, September 15, 2020. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12751/red-figured-jug---girl-playing-with-tortoise/>.
### MLA
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Red-figured Jug - Girl Playing with Tortoise." *World History Encyclopedia*, 15 Sep 2020, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12751/red-figured-jug---girl-playing-with-tortoise/>.

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