Terracotta hydria (water jar)

: Attributed to the Eagle Painter

Period:: Archaic

Date:: ca. 520–510 B.C.

Culture:: Greek, Caeretan

Medium:: Terracotta; black-figure

Dimensions:: H. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm) diameter of body 12 15/16 in. (32.8 cm) diameter of lip 7 3/8 in. (18.8 cm) diameter of foot 7 1/16 in. (18 cm) width with handles 14 15/16 in. (38 cm)

Classification:: Vases

Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1964

Accession Number:: 64.11.1

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 152

Obverse, a lion and a leopard felling a bull
Reverse, two horsemen

This jar belongs to a small group of distinctive hydriae found in Etruria that are believed to have been produced by East Greek craftsmen who had emigrated to Caere, an Etruscan city on the Italian coast, north of Rome. Here, two felines attacking a bull are surrounded by beautifully drawn ivy wreaths.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1964. "Ninety-Fourth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1963-1964." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 23(2): p. 72.

Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 64, pp. 67, 419, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

de Puma, Richard Daniel. 2013. Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 130 n. 179 [p. 312], New Haven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Essays
Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art

Timelines
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome

Department

Greek and Roman Art (17,341)

Artist / Maker / Culture

Eagle Painter (1)

Object Type / Material