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Description: | Attic red figure hydria (water jar). The surface slip is black, fired moslty reddish brown. It has a disc shape base leading into a wide bulbous body, a wide neck and a rimmed circular opening. It has a slightly raised rectangular shaped handle on two sides of the body and a vertical handle attached from the body to the neck on another side. The main frieze is on shoulder. The scene depicts from left to right, a woman stood clad in robes playing a lyre, a man restig on a stick facing her, a man holding resting on a stick but facing the other way, a bird, a woman seated holding a mirror in her hand, and a man clad in a robe facing her, resting on a long stick. Above and below the scene on a reserved background black lotus bud chain.
Attributed to the Hephaistos Painter | Subjects: | Greece Athens (?). Europe Southern Europe | Source: | Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.foreignarchaeology.80282 | Go to resource |
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