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Red-figure hydria with Menelaus pursuing Helen (top) and symposium scene (bottom), attributed to the Syriskos Painter

Greek (manufactured in Attica), Archaic Period, 480 B.C.

Found at Vulci in present-day Lazio, Italy

British Museum

Black-figure hydria with Heracles battling the Lernaean Hydra. Attributed to the Eagle Painter. From Caere, Etruria. Etruscan, c. 525 B.C. Terracotta. J. Paul Getty Museum.

Red-figure hydria with the abduction of Persephone (and detail)

Greek, Apulia, c. 340-330 B.C.

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Red-figure hydria with the abduction of Persephone

Apulia (Southern Italy), Late Classical Period, c. 340-330 B.C.

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze handle of a hydria (a water jar)

The handle is shaped like a siren, part woman and part bird. The handle is 21.3cm long (8 3/8 inch.)

Greek, Classical Period 460 - 450 BC.

Bronze hydria (water jar), 4th century b.c., Classical Greek

"Judgement of Paris" side A of an Attic Greek black-figure hydria, c. 510 B.C.

Terracotta hydria (water jar) with Herakles and the Nemean Lion

Attica, Greece

Archaic Period (2nd quarter of the 6th century BC)

Metropolitan Museum of Art