A LARGE BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A YOUNG MAN HOLDING A COCKEREL, standing with right leg slightly bent, looking down towards a cockerel which he holds in his left hand, both arms being bent in front, he wears a himation which is draped around his lower body, leaving his upper torso naked, the himation is folded in the crook of his left arm, in his curly hair he wears a thick wreath with ivy leaves, traces of pink colouring on himation, red on hair and reddish-brown on the cockerel, rectangular vent, repaired, right hand and fingers of left hand missing, circa early 3rd Century B.C.

A LARGE BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A YOUNG MAN HOLDING A COCKEREL, standing with right leg slightly bent, looking down towards a cockerel which he holds in his left hand, both arms being bent in front, he wears a himation which is draped around his lower body, leaving his upper torso naked, the himation is folded in the crook of his left arm, in his curly hair he wears a thick wreath with ivy leaves, traces of pink colouring on himation, red on hair and reddish-brown on the cockerel, rectangular vent, repaired, right hand and fingers of left hand missing, circa early 3rd Century B.C.

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The game-cock was a traditional gift from an older male admirer to a young man. Many terracotta figures of young men holding cockerels have been found in Boeotia, some from graves but the majority were found as votive offerings in the Sanctuary of the Kabeiri at Thebes. For a similarly modelled terracotta youth holding a strigil, cf. R. A. Higgins, Tanagra and the Figurines, London, 1987, p. 150, pl.182