The wine vessel in this metope, and the hydria in No.
Both the urna and the hydria are found in connection with funerary usages, and appear to have held the ashes of the dead.
Footnote 2290: The hydria is a form of essentially Ionic origin, the earliest examples being found in the “Caeretan” and Daphnae fabrics (see Chapter VIII.
Mr. Cecil Smith regards the Polledrara hydria as the result of an Italian attempt to imitate the new bucchero technique which was at this time being perfected (see below), the form of the vase being borrowed from an Ionic source.
This is a hydriaof somewhat peculiar, if not unique form, with a very wide body and rudimentary foot.
The hydria is usually a degenerate version of the R.
Since that time red-figured vases both of the severe and fine styles have been found, including a hydria figured by Inghirami.
The hydria is generally employed, as in Campania, for sepulchral subjects.
A very interesting representation of painters at work on their vases is to be seen on a hydria from Ruvo (Fig.
One of these is a hydria at present in the Berlin Museum, No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hydria" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
