Hydria

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1959 ΝΑΚ 37

Artist

Attic workshop

Category

Vessel

Period

Geometric Period

Date

750-700 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.495 m
Rim diameter: 0.198 m
Body diameter: 0.345 m
Base diameter: 0.133 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 1, No 83

Description
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Hydria mended of many fragments and restored. It was found in 1956 at a cemetery on the south slope of the Acropolis. It comes from Burial XVII-14 in which it was used as a burial-jar. It contained only a few bones as the burial offerings were placed outside of the hydria.

Its base is ring-shaped, the body ovoid, the neck wide, the rim outturned and the handles horizontal. The hydria id decorated on the exterior with various geometric motifs in zones rendered in brownish-black colour.

Χαριτωνίδης, Σ.Ι., «Ευρήματα Πρωτογεωμετρικής και Γεωμετρικής εποχής της ανασκαφής νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως», Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον 28 (1973), Μέρος Α΄ - Μελέται, 1975, σελ. 20, πίν. 11α, αρ.κατ. ΓΜ 46