Hydria

MS2463

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Greece | Attica

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS2463
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Greece | Attica
Manufacture Location Attica
Date Made 525-500 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Black Figure
Iconography Women | Fountain | Hydria | Heracles | Nemean Lion | Athena | Iolaus | Architecture | Pottery
Description

Main panel: Three women at fountain with hydriai. Left to right, Woman with hydria on side on head; woman with hydria on foot on head; woman holding out hydria toward fountain. Shoulder scene: Herakles and the Nemean Lion. Athena seated at the left. Center Herakles and the Lion. Right Iolaos seated holding club (?). Sections of the panel missing, restored in plaster. Probably also handles.

Height 46.3 cm
Outside Diameter 30.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Davis & Harvey (Coleman Estate Sale); Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897

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