Terracotta hydria (water jar)

Greek, Attic

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

On the body, Herakles and the Nemean Lion. On the shoulder, lions.

The shape of the hydria, as the neck-amphora, tended toward rotundity during the second quarter of the sixth century B.C.

Terracotta hydria (water jar), Terracotta, Greek, Attic

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