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Definition of Hydria

Hydria
Hydria Hy"dri*a, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

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- The hydria (Gr****: ὑδρία; pl.: hydriai) is a form of Gr**** pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the ****enistic period (3rd...
- Hydria (Ancient Gr****: Ὑδρία) was a town of ancient Greece on the island of Paros. Its site is located on Paros. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington...
- A Caeretan hydria is a type of ancient Gr**** painted vase, belonging to the black-figure style. Caeretan hydria are a particularly colourful type of Gr****...
- The Calyx Krater by the artist called the "Painter of the Berlin Hydria" depicting an Amazonomachy is an ancient Gr**** painted vase in the red figure style...
- The Eleusinian Mysteries hydria from Capua is a 4th-century BCE ancient Gr**** red-figure hydria, showing the reunion of Demeter and ****phone at the start...
- (530–500 BC) liked to decorate hydria with animal friezes in the predella, and otherwise especially neck amphoras. Two hydria attributed to him are decorated...
- Family: Geometridae Tribe: Rheumapterini Genus: Rheumaptera Hübner, 1822 Synonyms Coryphista Hulst, 1896 Eutriphosa Gumppenberg, 1887 Hydria Hübner, 1822...
- Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades, by Reyer van Blommendael. Xanthippe douses her husband with cold water from a hydria....
- 26-29 Inscription painter. Chalcidian Black-Figured Hydria, c.540-530 BC. Black-figure pottery hydria, 46 cm (18.1in). Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen...
- Painter makes "Women at a Fountain House", black-figure decoration on a hydria. It is now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 525 BC—Aeschylus, author of Gr****...