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Definition of Hydria

Hydria
Hydria Hy"dri*a, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.

Meaning of Hydria from wikipedia

- The hydria (Gr****: ὑδρία; pl.: hydriai) is a form of Gr**** pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the ****enistic period (3rd...
- A Caeretan hydria is a type of ancient Gr**** painted vase, belonging to the black-figure style. Caeretan hydria is a particularly colourful type of Gr****...
- Hydria (Ancient Gr****: Ὑδρία) was a town of ancient Greece on the island of Paros. Its site is located on Paros. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington...
- (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...
- related to Hydria cervinalis. Wikispecies has information related to Rheumaptera cervinalis. Scarce Tissue Hydria cervinalis on UKmoths Hydria cervinalis...
- Bibliothèque nationale, Paris) The emb****y to Achilles, Attic red-figure hydria, c. 480 BCE (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Berlin) Achilles sacrificing...
- The Eleusinian Mysteries hydria from Capua is a 4th-century BCE ancient Gr**** red-figure hydria, showing the reunion of Demeter and ****phone at the start...
- Heracles and Pholus, black-figured hydria, 520–510 BC, Louvre (MNE 940)...
- ("The Venomous Snake") and Alluttu ("The Crayfish"). Caeretan black-figure hydria (c. 346 BC) Mosaic from Roman Spain (AD 26) Silver sculpture (1530s) Engraving...
- 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...