Hydria (water jar): Theseus and the Minotaur

Theseus holds the Minotaur by one horn and stabs it with the sword. Two pairs of spectators on each side (a woman and a youth). Shoulder: Four pairs of dancing satyrs and nymphs. A black-figure fragment already in the HUAM collection (Acc. no. 1977.216.2383), providing a large section of the main scene, was found to join with this hydria by Aaron J. Paul on 30 June 1995. The fragment provides the lower part of the bodies of Theseus, in the center of the hydria's main figure scene, and the Minotaur's right arm and leg to the right, and the drapery and left leg of the youth to the left of the figure scene. The fragment completes the figure scene on the hydria, which, except for a few small minor fragments missing, renders the vase now virtually complete.