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Red-Figure Toilette Scene
This vase painting depicts two women, identified as hetairai, in an intimate setting. Because of their role as sex workers, a hetaira was able to be depicted in more compromising or subversive situations than respectable women in ancient Greece. The kneeling woman may be grooming the other woman or anointing her with perfume. It has been suggested that the kylix may depict two women preparing to entertain a client, or it may depict intimacy. Painting attributed to Apollodorus, c. 490-480 BCE.
Tarquinia National Museum.
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