hydria
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun A large three-handled water jar used by the ancient Greeks, with two handles used for lifting and the third for pouring.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun In archaeology, a large Greek vase, used especially for carrying water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun 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.
Examples
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The hydria, a jar for water, has two horizontal handles at the side for lifting and one vertical handle at the back for pouring.
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Three pieces of Attic pottery -- a black-figure kylix, a red-figure kylix, and a red-figure hydria -- were sold at a 1990 auction of antiquities in the collections of the Texas oil barons Nelson and William Hunt.
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When the Egyptians sacrificed a pig to the moon, "the first sacred emblem they carried was a _hydria_, or water-pitcher."
Note
The word 'hydria' comes from a Greek word meaning 'water-pot'.
