Most surviving pottery consists of vessels for storing, serving or drinking liquids such as amphorae, kraters ( bowls for mixing wine and water ), hydria ( water jars ), libation bowls, oil and perfume bottles for the toilet, jugs and cups.
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He rarely painted mythological scenes, but had a penchant for erotic motifs, as can be seen in his unusually shaped " hydria " at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the shoulder of which shows ten couples engaged in " riotous love-making ".
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A few surviving vases were labelled with their names in antiquity; these included a hydria depicted on the Fran�ois Vase and a kylix that declares, I am the decorated Pollux and other lexicographers who described vases unknown to them, and their accounts are often contradictory or confused.
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In the first hall are special showcases displaying a bronze kalpis or cinerary urn of the fourth century BC, a red-figure bell crater of the Kertsch type of the fourth century BC, and a bronze hydria kalpis used as a cinerary urn of the fourth century BC from the north-east cemetery of Veroia, and a reconstruction of a single-chambered rock-cut family tomb of the Hellenistic period, which was excavated in Veroia.
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On the krater from c . 380-70BC at Troilus can be seen with just one horse trying to defend himself with a throwing spear; on the hydria from c . 325-320BC at [ http : / / www . hermitagemuseum . org / fcgi-bin / db2www / quickSearch . mac / gallery ? selLang = English & tmCond = Troilus & go . x = 20 & go . y = 11, Achilles is pulling down the youth's horse.
