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MME 2017:471 :: hadra hydria

Object description

Everted rim; concave neck set off from body; sloping shoulder; ovoid body tapering to a short narrow base which flares out to a broad foot; bifid vertical handle from the upper part of the neck to shoulder; at junction with rim an undulating cross-piece; horizontal handles in mid-body curving slightly upwards.

Natural light brown to golden buff clay; black paint discoloured to pinkish in several parts.

Rim painted black on top; encircling diagonal stripes decorating the edge of rim; around neck two laurel branches beginning at vertical handle and uniting in a crossed circle decorated with dots in front; encircling band with dots below in junction with neck and shoulder; encircling wide band on the lower part of shoulder; upper front body decorated with floral heart-shaped leaf motif from which the two lower lines extend to both sides and curve in the middle; on both sides of motif two circles made of dots; at each side of horizontal handles a cross hatched rectangle; upper back body decorated in centre with abstract motif of two hooks that fall into a straight line; encircling band separating the upper body panel; parallell stripes on handles; base painted black interrupted by a natural colour encircling band on the lower part.

Data elements
References (1)

Serie nummer

23983

Inventory number

MME 2017:471

Previous ID

Strängnäs 0471

Object

hadra hydria

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Country - Origin

Egypt : Africa

Place - Origin

Alexandria

Material

Clay; Earthenware; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Context

Funerary

Acquisition

Belongs to the Strängnäs collection that was formed by the objects that an Italian nobleman named Pietro Pugioli, who lived in Alexandria in the 19th century, sent as a present to the Swedish captain C. Emil Göransson in 1880. The collection was kept at the Strängnäs Museum and Library. In 1945 it was donated by Södermanlands Fornminnesförening to Strängnäs Högre Allmänna Läroverk (Strängnäs Gymnasium). The collection was deposited at Medelhavsmuseet in 1993. In 2017 the deposition was changed into a donation since Strängnäs museum closed.

Description

Natural light brown to golden buff clay; black paint discoloured to pinkish in several parts.

Period

Hellenistic

Period, Swedish

Hellenistisk tid (323-31 f Kr)

Name - Acquired from

Göransson, C. Emil

Pugioli, Pietro

Description: Pietro Pugioli, born 1831, dead 1902, collector who lived in Alexandra. His collections have been scattered all over the world to museums in New York, Cairo, Bologna and Vienna.

Strängnäs museum

Source - http: www.svt.se

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current

Study Gallery - Showcase 14:07.

Event - Was Present At

Inventering, kulturtillgångar 2022

Description: Inventering, 2022Inventering%2C%202022

Event - Was Present At

Inventering kulturtillgång 2020

Comments

Belongs to the Clay Ground type of Hadra hydriae. Typical features: black paint on natural buff clay, dropped floor, floral motifs. Mainly used as ash-urns for the burial of visiting dignitaries to the Ptolemaic court.

Keyword

ceramics

Parallels

Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria: inv. 21968, with a similar floral motif on shoulder, laurel wreath on neck.

NegNo

Strängnäs 0467(1).jpg

Cf Publications

Callaghan, P.J. and Jones, R.E. (1985) "Hadra hydriae and central Crete: a fabric analysis", British School at Athens 80, 1-17. Cook, B.F. (1966) Inscribed Hadra vases in the Metropolitan Museum, Art Papers 12, New York. Pagenstecher, R. (1909) "Dated sepulchral vases from Alexandria", American Journal of Archaeology 13.4, 387-416.

PhotoNegNo

Strängnäs 0467(2).jpg

Strängnäs 0467(3).jpg

Strängnäs 0467(4).jpg

Height / Höjd

35,5 cm

Diameter

10,0 cm (base); 8,5 cm (rim)

Original register

Egypt

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