Monumental Hydria
Datecirca 330–310 BCE
MediumRed-figure ceramic with added white paint
DimensionsH. 31 x Max. Diam 18 1/4 in. (78.7 x 46.4 cm); W. (including handles) 22 in. (55.9 cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number74.1.2
On View
On viewHans Lohmann, "Zu technischen Besonderheiten apulischer Vasen," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd 97 (Berlin, 1982), illus. fig. 17, p. 209.
Hans Lohmann, "Grabmäler auf unteritalischen Vasen. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag" (1979), 109, 246, no. A 596, pl. 48.
A.D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia. Volume II (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1982) 537, no. 313, pl. 201, 1-3.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 51.
Elfriede Brummer, "Griechische Truhenbehalter," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd 100 (1985), 41, illus. 62.
A. Kossatz-Deissmann, “Lekythos der Gnathia-Gattung.” Archäologischer Anzeiger 1985, 243, fig. 23.
Helena Fracchia, “Small Terracotta Discs: an Emerging Class of Artifact in Southern Italy,” Bulletin Antieke Beschaving 62 (1987), 88, fig. 4.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 22.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Hydria, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 29, illus. (color).
Konrad Schauenburg, “Some Remarks on the Underworld Painter.” In: Periplous. Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to Sir John Boardman, eds. Tsetskhladze, G. R., A. J. N. W. Prag and A. M. Snodgrass (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000), 256.
Peter Danner, "Westgrieschische Giebeldekorationen. Part III: Giebeldekorationen von Grabbauten," in Römische Historische Mitteilungen, Vol. 44, Richard Bösel and Hermann Fillitz, eds. (Wien: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2002), 75, illus. (b-w) fig. 30.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Hydria, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 58, illus. (color) 59.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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