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Definition of Hydria
1. n. A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form.
Definition of Hydria
1. Noun. a three-handled clay or metal vessel used in Greek culture to contain and pour water. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydria
1. a water jar [n -DRIAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydria
Literary usage of Hydria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase by Jay Hambidge (1920)
"Bronze hydria, Metropolitan Museum, New York. (Measured and drawn by the Museum
Staff.) CHAPTER SEVEN: A hydria, ..."
2. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical by Gloria S. Merker (2000)
"Cylindrical cushion between head and hydria. Face oblong to oval, with low, ...
Head and hydria rendered in same mold. Back handmade, flattened. ..."
3. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"... perhaps the best description that has been given of the beautiful but baffling
relief picture on the hydria from Cumae now in St. Petersburg (PI. XVII). ..."
4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"... as usual, by music*, a flute-player, according to Herodotus, leading the van ;
and the first sacred emblem they carried was a hydria, or water- pitcher, ..."
5. Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the by John K. Papadopoulos (2003)
"Shoulder of Athenian blaek-figured hydria depicting a pottery in ... The hydria
has been published on numerous occasions; see, among others: Furtwangler and ..."
6. Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares by Susan I. Rotroff (2006)
"15, PL 15 1 inventoried example (1 in deposit sample) The hydria was never a ...
the earlier hydria, both local and imported, but the sloping shoulder and ..."
7. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"As regards the form of the hydria, it is characterised by the egg-shaped body,
the division of neck from shoulder by a moulded ring, the low flat-ribbed ..."
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