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    The hydria (Greek: ὑδρία; pl.: hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd...
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    The Calyx krater with Amazonomachy by the Painter of the Berlin Hydria is an ancient Greek painted vase in the red figure style, now in the Metropolitan...
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    (530–500 BC) liked to decorate hydria with animal friezes in the predella, and otherwise especially neck amphoras. Two hydria attributed to him are decorated...
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  • Hydria (Ancient Greek: Ὑδρία) was a town of ancient Greece on the island of Paros. Its site is located on Paros. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington...
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    Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) The embassy to Achilles, Attic red-figure hydria, c. 480 BC (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Berlin) Achilles sacrificing to...
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    The Eleusinian Mysteries hydria from Capua is a 4th-century BCE ancient Greek red-figure hydria, showing the reunion of Demeter and Persephone at the start...
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    fifty heads, but a hundred heads for Typhon became standard. A Chalcidian hydria (c. 540–530 BC), depicts Typhon as a winged humanoid from the waist up,...
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  • A scene depicting men sacrificing a pig on Ricci Hydria...
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    the kneeling Metaneira, who offers the wheat that is a recurring symbol of the mysteries (Varrese Painter, red-figure hydria, c. 340 BC, from Apulia)...
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    coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria (c. 530 BC) from Caere (Louvre E701)....
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    ("The Venomous Snake") and Alluttu ("The Crayfish"). Caeretan black-figure hydria (c. 346 BC) Mosaic from Roman Spain (AD 26) Silver sculpture (1530s) Engraving...
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    A Caeretan hydria is a type of ancient Greek painted vase, belonging to the black-figure style. Caeretan hydria is a particularly colourful type of Greek...
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     172. ISBN 0-870-99972-9. Pedley, John Griffiths (1970). "The Friedlaender Hydria". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 74: 48–49. doi:10.2307/310997...
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    bronze vessel known as the 'Grächwil Hydria', found in the princely tomb of a Celtic chieftain in 1851. The hydria is thought to originate from Laconia...
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    Blommendael. Often, his wife Xanthippe, alone or with Myrto (the other alleged wife of Socrates) is depicted emptying a pot of urine (hydria) over Socrates....
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    discovery includes seven sizable volute craters, two amphorae, two skyphoi, a hydria, a large plate, nine fish plates with pieces, four women's head plates with...
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    Lesbos or (Aeschylean) Muses of Pieria? Orpheus' Head on a Fifth-century Hydria". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. 53 (3): 441–460. ISSN 2159-3159....
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    Eros. red-figure pottery fragment, 450–425 BC. Acropolis Museum, Athens. Hydria of Eros between Poseidon, Amymone, and a Satyr; 375-350 B.C.; red-figure...
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    Sappho inspired ancient poets and artists, including the vase painter from the Group of Polygnotos who depicted her on this red-figure hydria....
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    surviving vases were labelled with their names in antiquity; these included a hydria depicted on the François Vase and a kylix that declares, “I am the decorated...
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    Hydria (ca. 340 BC) depicting figures from the Eleusinian Mysteries...
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    Thetis and attendants bring armor she had prepared for him to Achilles, an Attic black-figure hydria, c. 575–550 BC, Louvre...
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  • Painter makes "Women at a Fountain House", black-figure decoration on a hydria. It is now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 525 BC—Aeschylus, author of Greek...
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    Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades, by Reyer van Blommendael. Xanthippe douses her husband with cold water from a hydria....
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    Lepidoptera Family: Geometridae Genus: Rheumaptera Species: R. prunivorata Binomial name Rheumaptera prunivorata Ferguson, 1955 Synonyms Hydria prunivorata...
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    Achilles and Memnon, in the presence of their mothers Thetis and Eos, late Corinthian Black-Figure hydria, circa 575-550 BC, now in the Walters Art Museum....
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    genre scene of Achilles and Ajax playing dice, here with Athena presiding, the heroes often hold two spears (Attic black-figure hydria, ca. 510 BCE BC)...
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    concludes with The Garden of Cyrus. The title is Greek for "urn burial": A hydria (ὑδρία) is a large Greek pot, and taphos (τάφος) means "tomb". Its nominal...
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    related to Hydria cervinalis. Wikispecies has information related to Rheumaptera cervinalis. Scarce Tissue Hydria cervinalis on UKmoths Hydria cervinalis...
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    coinage. An early example is found on the Shield of Achilles in an Attic hydria of the late 6th century BCE. It is found on coinage in Lycia and on staters...
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