This mug features classical artwork after an Attic red-figure scene (c. 470 BCE).Ganymede(Γανυμήδης), the beautiful Trojan youth, cupbearer of Zeus, and god of homosexual love, is shown in a rare moment of play—guiding a hoop while holding a rooster.
Attributed to the Pan Painter, the scene captures something quiet and powerful: not the abduction, not Olympus, but the moment before—youth in motion, beauty unclaimed, time still his own.
