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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...
- The Calyx krater with Amazonomachy by the Painter of the Berlin Hydria is an ancient Gr**** painted vase in the red figure style, now in the Metropolitan...
- (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...
- A Caeretan hydria is a type of ancient Gr**** painted vase, belonging to the black-figure style. Caeretan hydria is a particularly colourful type of Gr****...
- 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...
- fifty heads, but a hundred heads for Typhon became standard. A Chalcidian hydria (c. 540–530 BC), depicts Typhon as a winged humanoid from the waist up,...
- the kneeling Metaneira, who offers the wheat that is a recurring symbol of the mysteries (Varrese Painter, red-figure hydria, c. 340 BC, from Apulia)...
- 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...
- Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) The emb****y to Achilles, Attic red-figure hydria, c. 480 BC (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Berlin) Achilles sacrificing to...
- surviving vases were labelled with their names in antiquity; these included a hydria depicted on the François Vase and a kylix that declares, “I am the decorated...