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Source Description
This vessel gets its name from a shape of earthenware jar that was used to carry water. This bronze hydria was probably used not to carry water but as a cinerary urn (kalpis). The figure on the handle is the mythological siren, a human-headed bird.
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Document identity
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153270
label
Hydria
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object
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1
Source metadata
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153270
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object
title
Hydria
description
This vessel gets its name from a shape of earthenware jar that was used to carry water. This bronze hydria was probably used not to carry water but as a cinerary urn (kalpis). The figure on the handle is the mythological siren, a human-headed bird.
date
425–400 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60762010
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Metalwork
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 41.6 x 38.4 cm (16 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
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Greece
accession
1986.23
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Hydria, 425–400 BCE. Greece. Bronze; overall: 41.6 x 38.4 cm (16 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.23
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
This bronze vessel was likely used as a funerary urn.
citations
citation
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (February 1987): 38–79.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, no. 9
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 9
citation
Brody, Lisa R., Matthew Hargraves, and James Arnold Higginbotham. <em>Figures from the Fire: J. Pierpont Morgan's Ancient Bronzes at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art</em>. Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, London. 2023.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 93
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:54:55.452000
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153270
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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bronze
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