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A work made of terracotta, black-glaze.

Hydria (Water Jar)

400-350 BCE

Greek; probably Campania, Italy

Greece

The black-glazed body of this water jar is decorated with vertical ribbing, but under the vertical handle there is a stack of three inverted “v”s. There is a frieze of red-figured ovolos on the edge of the mouth.

terracotta, black-glaze

Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium