The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Bronze hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Bronze hydria: kalpis (water jar)

Period:: Archaic or Early Classical
Date:: early 5th century B.C.
Culture:: Greek, Attic
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: H. 12 3/8 (31.4 cm.) width 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Classification:: Bronzes
Credit Line:: Gift of Joyce and Dietrich von Bothmer, in memory of Christos G. Bastis, 1999
Accession Number:: 1999.460

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

Description

An inscription on the top of the mouth reads: "One of the prizes from the competition in honor of the Dioskouroi." Although the Panathenaic games were the most famous events in Attica, there were others. The Dioskouroi are the legendary twin brothers of Helen, whose beauty precipitated the Trojan War.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed on top of the mouth: "one of the prizes from the competition in honor of the Dioskouri"
See also
What
Metal (59,364)

Vessels (21,921)

Copper alloy (16,630)

Bronze (11,628)

Hydriae (160)

Kalpides (29)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Greece (6,287)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
Greek and Roman Art (17,329)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.