Pale terracotta water jar with two small shoulder handles and a faded painted medallion with a face, on a gray background.

Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

A pale buff terracotta hydria, or water jar, stands on a ring foot with two small handles at the shoulders, its surface worn and flaked. A reddish-brown painted ring encircles a small bluish-gray medallion on the body, where a worn human face is faintly visible against the pale clay.

Artist: Unknown
Date: 3rd century BCE
Medium: Terracotta
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 2894 × 3682 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 1890

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