object type / vase shape: Laconian black figure hydria
<p>- description upper frieze: gorgoneion between sphinxes, cocks and other birds
- lower frieze: row of water-birds
- production place: Laconia
- painter / group: manner of the Hunt Painter
- period / date: ripe archaic, ca. 540-530 BC
- material: pottery (clay)
- height: 39.4 cm
- findspot: Vulci
- museum / inventory number: London, British Museum 1849,0518.14 / cat. vases B 58
- bibliography: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0518-14">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0518-14</a>
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