The inscription on the front gives the name of the deceased whose cremated bones were placed inside it. He was Hieronides of Phocaea, who died while leading an embassy to the royal court of Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-221 B.C.).
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Title:Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)
Period:Hellenistic
Date:226–225 BCE
Culture:Greek, Ptolemaic, Cretan
Medium:Terracotta
Dimensions:H.: 16 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (42.2 x 26.7 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Purchase, 1890
Object Number:90.9.5
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 205–6, fig. 142, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Cook, Brian. 1966. Inscribed Hadra Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Papers of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 12. no. 3, p. 21, pls. I, IX, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Picón, Carlos A. and Seán Hemingway. 2016. Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World p. 57, fig. 66, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mertens, Joan R. 2019. "Innovation in Hellenisitc Athenian Pottery : The Evolution from Painted to Relief Wares." Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms from Pergamon to Rome, Seán Hemingway and Kyriaki Karoglou, eds. p. 153, fig. 9, New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Zanker, Paul. 2022. Afterlives : Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. fig. 48, p. 170, New York: Scala Publishers.
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