hydria
- Museum number
- 1865,0103.26
- Description
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Pottery: red-figured hydria.
Two girls playing a game? Beside a low table or frame a girl on the left half kneels in the attitude of one playing knucklebones, her left beneath her mantle, her right resting on the table, the forefinger bent as if holding a disk-shaped object partly, shown. On the right her opponent stands beside the other end of the table, bending forward with right arm extended, as if she had just thrown something towards the left end of the table. Above them, Eros, represented as a diminutive full-grown boy wearing a fillet, flies towards the kneeling figure to crown her with a wreath which he holds in both hands. Both figures wear chiton and himation: the left hand one has her hair looped up with a fillet and wears earrings, the right hand one wears a saccos. The table is of curious construction: the support on the left is in the form of two lion's legs, the other in the form of two deer's legs back to back. Above this end is a circular line which does not seem to belong to the drapery, and may be an object resting on the table.
Purple fillet and wreath. Brown inner markings. Eye in profile. Design on shoulder and body.
- Production date
- 430BC-420BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.32 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Panofka, Cabinet Pourtales, pl. 33, p. 111; Gazette des Beaux Arts, 2nd ser. viii, p. 122 (cut in text); Schreiber-Anderson, Atlas of Cl. Ant. pl. 80, 1.
Is this some variation of the ωμιλλα(?) See Smith's Diet. Ant.3 ii. pp. 247-8; cf. Arch. Zeit. 1871, pl. 56, 3, where two girls play a game, and one is crowned by Eros.
- Location
- On display (G20a/dc26)
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1865,0103.26
