Definition of hydria in English:
hydria
nounPlural hydriai, Plural hydriae ˈhʌɪdrɪə
Archaeology An ancient Greek pitcher with three handles.
Example sentencesExamples
- Based on evidence from this narrow context of the wedding and its related symposia, a conclusion that the hydria played a role in more ordinary symposia is plausible.
- Miniature vessels for carrying water (especially small hydriai) or vessels for grain predominate among the small ceramic objects.
- Although the floor in the south part of the room was eroded, a fragmentary hydria and krater found among the artifacts lying against the bedrock outcrop may originally have been sitting directly on the floor.
- The rareness of the composition of the main scene on the Reading hydria caught the attention of scholars, and it is indeed unusual.
- Although the documents that accompanied the hydria identify it as ‘London 1519.69,’ it was not demonstrably ever part of a major museum collection there.
Origin
Via Latin from Greek hudria.