ancientpeoples:Terracotta oon (egg) showing a youth abducting a woman (Paris and Helen?)Greek or Att
ancientpeoples:Terracotta oon (egg) showing a youth abducting a woman (Paris and Helen?)Greek or Attic, ca. 420–410 B.C.(Classical period)5cm (2 in) high and 4.5cm in diameter, attributed to the Washing painterEggs are well attested as funerary offerings—real eggs, artistic counterparts in marble and terracotta or, as here, diminutive vases of egg shape. This example was found with another, now in Athens, and both originally had lids. The abduction scene has been interpreted as depicting Paris and Helen. The shape is particularly pertinent to the subject because Helen was hatched from an egg. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art -- source link