The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 13, 2024
Hydria
425–400 BCE
Location: 102B Greek
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This bronze vessel was likely used as a funerary urn.Description
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.- The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 9 archive.orgBrody, Lisa R., Matthew Hargraves, and James Arnold Higginbotham. Figures from the Fire: J. Pierpont Morgan's Ancient Bronzes at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, London. 2023. Referenced p. 93
- Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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