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Hydria (Attic black-figure ware)
700 BCE
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
45.2 × 29.3 × 23.3 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1982
© Public Domain
Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Attica, Greece
Accession Number
D23-1982
Department
Antiquities
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Tall jar with an ovoid body, wide tall neck and three handles, one vertical and two smaller belly handles. The rim edge, handles and shoulder are decorated with applied plastic "snakes". The vase is covered with geometric black-figure decoration. On the neck is a band of grazing deer above a prothesis scene, then a band of spirals. On the body are bands of geometric decoration with two rampant lions facing left in the handle zone panels, above another band of grazing deer.