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Handbook of the classical collection (1917)

Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 207

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econd century B.C. The subjects on our examples include friezes of chariots with divinities (fig. 106), Herakles and lolaos fighting the Lernaean Hydra, a Gorgoneion, a crab and a frog, and female heads and busts. A collection of nineteen vases in Case G is of special Case G interest as having been… … FIG. 107. VASES FROM HADRA, EGYPT The vases consist of a large water-jug, a number of plates, deep and shallow, various jugs, and a cruet-stand. They probably constituted a dinner service. A class of Hellenistic pottery which is unusually well represented in this Museum is that of "Hadra" vases…

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