Hydria (Water Jar)
The Orchard Painter
480-470 BCE
Medium
terracotta, red-figure
Dimensions
33.5 × 33.7 × 27.6 cm (13 3/16 × 13 1/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
vessel
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
252
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This vase depicts the winged goddess Eos (Dawn), wearing a diadem, chiton and himation, pursuing an unnamed youth who is probably Tithonos: she has caught him by the arm. He wears a himation and holds a lyre in his left hand. On the left of the scene a boy, heavily wrapped in his himation, flees to the left, but turns his head back to the right: he was perhaps intended to be a schoolmate.