An Attic Red-figured Pelike, attributed to the Pig Painter, circa 480 B.C.

one side painted with a courting scene showing a youth receiving a bag from a bearded man leaning on a staff, the youth wearing a himation leaving his right shoulder bare, the man wearing a himation wrapped around the shoulders, each crowned with a wreath in added red, the other side painted with a similar composition showing a youth gesturing before another youth leaning on a staff, their attire identical to that of the figures on the reverse, a nonsensical inscription in red between them; two red lines below each scene, festooned lotus buds and dots above, bands of zigzags on either side, a thin red line encircling the neck.

Arete, Galerie für Antike Kunst, Zurich, 1972

For a related example by the same painter see Boreas, vol. 7, 1984, pl. 33.7-8 (B. Korzus, ed., Griechische Vasen aus westfälischen Sammlungen, Munster, 1984, pp. 68-69, no. 13).

In a letter dated October 29th, 1972, Hans Jucker suggests that the youth is shown receiving a bag of astragaloi (bone gaming pieces) as a love gift from the older man.