Hadra Vase

ca. 230 BCE (Ptolemaic)

38 cm 36.7 cm 25.1 cm

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Hadra vases are named for a cemetery in Hellenistic Alexandria, where such vessels held the ashes of the dead. Though shaped like an Athenian "hydria," or water jug, its sparse decoration suggests inspiration from Macedonia, where metal "hydriae" draped with gold wreaths were...

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David Rosen [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1945, by gift.
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