Cleveland Museum of Art
Hydria
- Date
- 425–400 BCE
- Medium
- bronze
- Culture
- Greece
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This vessel gets its name from a shape of earthenware jar that was used to carry water. This bronze hydria was probably used not to carry water but as a cinerary urn (kalpis). The figure on the handle is the mythological siren, a human-headed bird. This bronze vessel was likely used as a funerary urn.
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