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Hydria, Medea
Height: 0.297 m
Width: 0.288 m
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1917) by Hope, Francis Pelham Clinton, Lord
Classical
Production date:
450 BC
Accession number: GR.12.1917
Primary reference Number: 68673
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Hydria" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/68673 Accessed: 2023-06-09 10:12:48
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Hydria
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-09 10:12:48|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-68673
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