Hadra Hydria

Hadra Hydria is shaped like a hydria, a type of Greek vase that was used for collecting and pouring water. This vase, however, was used as a cinerary urn (a container for a deceased person’s ashes). “Hadra” is the modern name for an ancient cemetery, or necropolis (meaning “the city of the dead’’) in Alexandria, Egypt.

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