Art Institute of Chicago
Hydria (Water Jar)
Greek; probably Campania, Italy
- Date
- 400-350 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, black-glaze
- Culture
- Greece
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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