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The hydria also acted as a funerary urn containing ashes. [5] This function was primarily associated with the hadra hydria. [5] The funerary ceremony was conducted by a royal official who recorded the name of the deceased, their origin, the date of burial and a general inscription. [5] The bronze hydria acted as a prize in tournaments and ...
Late Geometric hydria, circa 700/675 BC. Paris: Louvre.. Boeotian vase painting was a regional style of ancient Greek vase painting.Since the Geometric period, and up to the 4th century BC, the region of Boeotia produced vases with ornamental and figural painted decoration, usually of lesser quality than the vase paintings from other areas.
Eleusinian hydria. The Eleusinian hydria, standing at a height of 68 cm, is attributed to the Varrese painter. The inscriptions do not provide an explanation for the depicted story, and this form of the story is not known in Greek iconography. Interpretation of the scenes depicted on the vase is based on the visual narrative and aligned with ...
A Caeretan hydria is a type of ancient Greek painted vase, belonging to the black-figure style. Caeretan hydria is a particularly colourful type of Greek vase painting. [ 1 ] Their geographic origin is disputed by scholars, but in recent years the view that they were produced by two potter-painters who had emigrated from East Greece to Caere in ...
The 2,500-year-old hydria, signed by Athenian potte. The British Museum has lent for the first time in 250 years an ancient Greek water vase, the Meidias hydria, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens ...
Drawing of Eleusinian figures around the neck of the Queen of Vases Photo of the Regina Vasorum; the hydria stands 65.5 cm high [1] The Regina Vasorum or Queen of Vases is a 4th-century BC hydria from Cumae depicting Eleusinian divinities with gilded flesh in polychrome relief. It is held in the collections of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
From Egypt, c. 230 BC Egyptian Hâdra vase, 3rd century The modern scholarly term Hâdra vases (also Hadra vases) describes a group of Hellenistic painted hydriai.Apart from late Panathenaic prize amphorae, it is the only substantial group of figurally or ornamentally painted vases in the Greek world of the 3rd century BC (the rare Centuripe ware vases from Sicily continued even later).
Etruscan black-figure hydria, early 5th century BC. The local production of Etruscan vases probably began in the 7th century BC. Initially, the vases followed examples of black-figure vase painting from Corinth and East Greece. It is assumed that in the earliest phase, vases were produced mainly by immigrants from Greece.