Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)
At the shoulder, a band of tongues, alternating with red and black; below, draped figure with the left arm bent and raised; youth to right, looking over his left shoulder, with his arms bent, and his left arm raised, with his chlamys draped across his chest and over his shoulders; Theseus to right, with a scabbard, wearing winged sandals, and an animal skin over a chitoniskos, wrestling the Minotaur; below, at the left, top of the head of a filleted figure to right
Artwork Details
- Title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)
- Period: Archaic
- Date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE
- Culture: Greek, Attic
- Medium: Terracotta; black-figure
- Classification: Vases
- Credit Line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011
- Object Number: 2011.604.3.708
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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