Athenian red-figure hydria: spinning women

Classification

hydria ; red-figure pottery

Culture

Greek (culture)

Dimensions

height: 29.6 cm

Date

ca. 460–450 B.C.

Period

Classical Period (480–323)

Material

clay

Artist

Class of London E 195

Iconography

female figure ; mirror ; calathus (modius/polos); chair/throne ; ball of yarn ; egg-and-dart motif ; laurel ; meander ; cross ; weaving, spinning

Inscription

Greek (language)

Production place

Athens

Findspot

Capua (Santa Maria Capua Vetere)

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Museum of Applied Arts

Inventory

50.154

ID

Hyp-3048

References

Pulszky 1874, 24, no. 71; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1955, pl. 12, fig. 2; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1957, pl. 12, fig. 2; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1961, pl. 8, fig. 1; Szilágyi–Castiglione 1965, pl. 8, fig. 1; Sarkady 1974, 206, fig. 73; Szilágyi–Szabó 1974, 42, fig. 24; Szilágyi, J. Gy. 1988b, 67, no. 31; Johnston, in BullMusHong 83 (1995), 21, no. 16, 29, fig. 26a–b, 34–35, 117, 120; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 43; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 48

See the vase on the website of the Beazley Archive.

Trails

Home, family, clothing

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