Hydria (Water Jar)

Place of OriginMade in Crete; found at Hadra, the cemetery east of Alexandria

DatePtolemaic Dynasty, about 210 BCE.

DimensionsH: 14 9/16 in. (37 cm); Diam (rim): 4 23/32 in. (12 cm); Diam (body): 9 1/16 in. (23 cm); Diam (foot): 3 15/16 in. (10 cm); Diam (with handles): 7 15/32 in. (19 cm)

MediumTerracotta

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1928.166

Not on View

Published References

Catalogue American Art Association, New York, 1903, no. 976 (listed as MMA 03.3.7).

Catalogue Anderson Galleries, 30-31, March 1928, p. 70, no. 280.

Cook, B.F., Inscribed Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, papers no. 12, New York, 1966, p. 14, no. 42 (repr.), pp. 7-12 (for discussion of vases from Hadra).

Luckner, Kurt T., "The Art of Egypt: Part II," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 14, no. 3, 1971, p. 76, fig. 18.

Boulter, Cedric G., and Kurt T. Luckner, Corpus vasorum antiquorum: Toledo Museum of Art, fasc. 2, U.S.A. fasc. 20, Mainz, 1982, pl 120, 2-4.

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 24, repr. (col.).

Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-January 8, 2012.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Rumpf, A. Malerei und Zeichnung, Munich, 1953, p. 154 and note 1 (for a discussion of the vase from Hadra).

cf. Callaghan, P.J., and R.E. Jones, "Hadra Hydriae and central Crere: a fabric analysis," Annual, British School at Athens, v. 80, 195, pp. 1-17.