About this artwork
The black-glazed body of this water jar is decorated with vertical ribbing, but under the vertical handle there is a stack of three inverted “v”s. There is a frieze of red-figured ovolos on the edge of the mouth.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
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Culture
- Ancient Greek
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Title
- Hydria (Water Jar)
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Place
- Greece (Object made in)
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Date
- 400 BCE–350 BCE
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Medium
- terracotta, black-glaze
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Dimensions
- 38.4 × 29.2 × 27.8 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/2 × 9 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Chester D. Tripp
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Reference Number
- 1975.699
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/49740/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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