M0016189EB: Hydria (water carrier) showing two women with offerings at an altar, from Southern Italy, 4th century BC

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/145/39
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M0016189EB: Hydria (water carrier) showing two women with offerings at an altar, from Southern Italy, 4th century BC. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Hydria (water carrier) showing 2 women with offerings at an altar, from Southern Italy

Description

Photograph of a terracotta hydria (water carrier) decorated with a red carved design showing two women with offerings at an altar. From Southern Italy and dated from the second quarter of the 4th century BC. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R481/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related material: M0016189EA

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: accession number R481/1936.

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Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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