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Aeneas Carrying Anchises Oinochoe - Black Figure

From N.S. Gill, About.com

An oinochoe is a wine-pouring jug. The Greek for wine is oinos. Oinochoe were produced during both the Black-Figure and Red-Figure periods. (More below.)
Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC.Public Domain. Courtesy of Bibi Saint-Pol at Wikipedia.
Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC.
At the end of the Trojan War, the Trojan prince Aeneas left the burning city carrying his father Anchises on his shoulders. Eventually Aeneas founded the city that was to become Rome.
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