Item: Greek hydria (vessel for carrying and pouring water)

Material: Red-figure ware

Place of origin: Athens

Date of origin: early 4th Century BC

Accession number: 1327

Description: The god Dionysus, his legs covered by a gathered cloak, reclines on a couch. He wears an ivy wreath, holding a thyrsos and vine in his right hand. Two women perform a slow dance. Both wear elegant sandals. A white leopard (a pet) with a collar crouches between them. On the left sits a woman with a hare in her lap, wearing a peplos. Her hair is bound up. On the right sitting on a leopard-skin is a satyr with a white drinking horn, a wine jar balanced on its foot. Opposite is another satyr, sitting on a skin, holding a thyrsos.