hydria
- Museum number
- 1824,0501.20
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar).
Design red on black ground. Large style. On the lip, egg-moulding; on the neck, laurel-wreath and egg-moulding; below the design, maeander and crosses.
Mourners (?): In the centre is a female figure seated to left, with face to front, on a seat ornamented with bands of maeander, zigzags, and wave-pattern; she has long curls, necklace, bracelet on right arm, long sleeved chiton girt at waist, bordered himation over lower limbs, and fringed veil at back; in right hand she holds out a pyxis with open lid. Before her is a nude youth, with left arm resting on a stele, round which his chlamys is wound, holding out an iynx (bird-shaped magic charm) to her in right hand; the iynx is to left, with wings addorsed. On the right is a female figure to left, holding a parasol with twisted handle over the seated figure; she has curly hair gathered in an opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton; behind her, a tendril.
- Production date
- 400BC-380BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 36.80 centimetres
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Weight: 2 kilograms
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Width: 32.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
The type of face is as on many Lucanian and Apulian vases; cf. BM Vases F174 and F271.
- Location
- On display (G73/dc12)
- Exhibition history
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2023 4 May - 13 Aug, London, BM, G35, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1824,0501.20