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Terracotta amphora (jar)

ca. 275–250 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 164
Applied decoration: on the shoulder, left, Herakles; right, Eros with cornucopia; below the handles, heads

This elaborate vessel with appliqué reliefs, twisted handles, and vertical ribbing emulates more expensive metal versions of the same shape. Found in the Hadra cemetery of Alexandria, Egypt, it was, like most of the Hadra hydriai (water jars used as cinerary urns), probably the product of a workshop in western Crete and imported to Egypt.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Terracotta amphora (jar)
  • Artist: Attributed to the Group with Horizontal Ivy Leaves
  • Period: Hellenistic
  • Date: ca. 275–250 BCE
  • Culture: Greek, Ptolemaic
  • Medium: Terracotta; black-glaze
  • Dimensions: H.: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm)
  • Classification: Vases
  • Credit Line: Purchase, 1890
  • Object Number: 90.9.1
  • Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art

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