Handle from a Hydria (Water Jar) or a Stamnos (Mixing Jar)

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

5th century BCE

Etruscan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Culture: Ancient Greek
Title: Handle from a Hydria (Water Jar) or a Stamnos (Mixing Jar)
Place: Ancient Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 500 BCE–401 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 16.5 × 2.5 × 3.5 cm (6 1/2 × 1 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Classical Art Society
Reference Number: 1987.245
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 39.

Acanthus Ancient Art, New York before October 19, 1987 [according to incoming object receipt in curatorial object file]; purchased for the Art Institute of Chicago by the Classical Art Society, 1987.

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