hydria
- Museum number
- 1814,0704.566
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar).
Design red on black ground, with white accessories. On the neck, tongue-pattern; on the shoulder and at the back, palmettes.
Female tumbler to left, in the act of turning a somersault, standing on her hands with feet over her head; her hair is tied in a bunch, and she wears earrings, white belt, close-fitting garment over hips, and white bands round her ankles and insteps. Before her is a stool, and behind, a small table (or potter's turn-table); above are a festoon of beads and two tympana, on one of which is a star.
- Production date
- 340BC-330BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
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Weight: 1.02 kilograms
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Width: 17.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Christie, Disquisitions, pl. 1; Inghirami, Vasi Fitt. i. pl. 87; Millin-Reinach, Peintures, ii. pl. 78, 4, p. 87; Panofka, Bild. Ant. Leb. pl. 12, fig. 6.
For the scene, cf. Xen. Sympos. 2, 7; Smith, Dict. Ant.3 ii. p. 593; Daremberg and Saglio, i. p. 1078; Baumeister, p. 585; Stephani, Compte-Rendu, 1864, p. 238 ff.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc24)
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1814,0704.566
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1814,0704.1210 (also registered as)
