A Large Campanian red-figure hydria by the Ixion Painter, ca. 330 - 310 BCE Medium - Stone Condition: Age cracks professionally conserved

Condition: Age cracks professionally conserved with fill and minor cosmetic overpainting

It features Gloria’s unique style depicting the leaves of the bush medicine plant in broad

breastplate

were in power north of the Great Wall

Otherwise intact

A Large Campanian red-figure hydria by the Ixion Painter, ca. 330 - 310 BCE Medium - Stone Condition: Age cracks professionally conservedThis beautifully decorated water vessel (Hydria) portrays fierce Greek colonists and Samnite warriors clashing in the height of battle. The Greeks, wearing greaves, shields and flying cloaks, fight Samnite warriors identified by their distinctive white tunics and iconic broad belts. All warriors wear helmets and carry weapons including swords, spears, axes, and clubs. Water vessels such as this example were used at Greek symposiums to water down wine