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source = Attic red-figure plate at display in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

date of creation of art= 530-430 BCE;

description = Pederastic scene at the palestra: man and youth about to make love. The youth is holding a bag of nuts, probably a courting gift from his lover. On the wall, a sponge and strygil (scraper). Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup by the Brygos-Painter, 480–470 BC, Ashmolean Museum (1967.304), Oxford. J.D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 378, 137.

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