Hydria (water vessel) depicting Apollo riding a griffin

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Hydria (water vessel) depicting Apollo riding a griffin,
ca. 380–360 BCE

Greek, Attic

Classical Period, ca. 480–323 BCE

2003-92

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Title

Hydria (water vessel) depicting Apollo riding a griffin

Dates

ca. 380–360 BCE

Medium

Red-figure ceramic

Dimensions

27.9 x 21.5 cm, diam. 11.3 cm (11 x 8 7/16 x 4 7/16 in.) diam. foot 10.7 cm. (4 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Classical Purchase Fund

Object Number

2003-92

Place Made

Europe, Greece, Athens

Culture

Attic

Period

Classical, Red-figure

Type

ceramics, hydriae

Materials

ceramic

Subject

palmettes, deities, contrapposto, oinochoai, phialae, griffins, mythology, men, ovolos, peploses, chlamyses, sakkoses, figures (representations), women, wreaths (costume accessories)

Purchased from Charles Ede, London, in 2003.

"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2003," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 63 (2004): p. 101-141., p. 127

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Greek, Attic, Classical Period (ca. 480–323 BCE), Athens, Greece, ca. 380–360 BCE, Hydria (water vessel) depicting Apollo riding a griffin. Red-figure ceramic; 27.9 x 21.5 x 11.3 cm. Museum purchase, Classical Purchase Fund (2003-92)
Princeton University Art Museum.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/41990

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