Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)

Unknown

third quarter of the sixth century BCE · Terracotta · Greek and Roman Art

At the shoulder, a band of tongues, alternating with red and black; below, draped figure with the left arm bent and raised; youth to right, looking over his left shoulder, with his arms bent, and his left arm raised, with his chlamys draped across his chest and over his shoulders; Theseus to right, with a scabbard, wearing winged sandals, and an animal skin over a chitoniskos, wrestling the Minotaur; below, at the left, top of the head of a filleted figure to right

Artist

Unknown

Date

third quarter of the sixth century BCE

Medium

Terracotta

Culture

Greek, Attic

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011