ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Black-glaze Water Jar

AAT Object Form/FunctionHydriae

Place CreatedItaly, Europe

CultureGreek

PeriodHellenistic

Date3rd Century BCE

MediumCerarmic

Credit LineGift of Harvey Smith

DimensionsRim: 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm) Maximum: 10 1/16 × 35 7/16 in. (25.6 × 90 cm)

Object number1989.002.004

Label TextHydria with profiled foot, ovoid body, high concave neck and broad rim. An ivy scroll around the belly and the lower part of the neck formed of added white leaves within a dotted border. The body with vertical ribbing with four applied relief plaques on the shoulder: three depicting a Greek fighting an Amazon and one of a lion to left. An applied Medusa head at the base of the handle.

This hydria belongs to a class of vessels known as 'Plakettenvasen' that imitated the appearance of more expensive vases in chased metal. A Cretan workshop has been proposed for the series as a whole but examples have been found across the Mediterranean, from South Italy to Egypt.
Exhibition HistoryRecent Acquisitions, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 14 - September 15, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11,1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - September 15, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 29, 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesMichael C. Carlos Museum Handbook (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 1996), 66.

ProvenanceEx coll. Harvey Smith (ca. 1910-1995), New York, New York.

Status

On view

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