History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria

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Post by benbreen » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 5:57 AM UTC

History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria
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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 1:57 AM UTC

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Post by pugworthy » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 6:06 AM UTC

What I'd like to know is how something so relatively fragile managed to survive so well for around 2500 years. I want to know about how it was found, condition, etc. What's it's story? Not the British Museum's story but its story?

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Post by ryannevius » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 6:17 AM UTC

pugworthy wrote: post #3

What I'd like to know is how something so relatively fragile managed to survive so well for around 2500 years. I want to know about how it was found, condition, etc. What's it's story? Not the British Museum's story but its story?

Indeed, the "story of the object from its perspective" would be interesting to know for many of the items in The British Museum.

Re: History's most famous pot: the Meidias hydria

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Post by laylower » Tue, Dec 05, 2023, 11:44 AM UTC

I mean, after the last few weeks it is hard reading articles like this one and not instantly thinking they are held in the wrong place...