Loutrophoros

30-4-1

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Greece | Attica | Athens

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 30-4-1
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Attic
Provenience Greece | Attica | Athens
Manufacture Location Attica
Creator Achilles Painter | Sabouroff Painter
Date Made ca. 440 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Warrior | Funeral | Scepter
Description

On upper body: battle scene, "a fight between foot soldiers and cavalry. Below this is a funeral scene: a long procession of men and youths with their right arms extended in a gesture of farewell to the dead. On the neck of the vase there are two figures, one on each side: a young warrior, and a man holding a sceptre. The mouth and the lip of the vase are each decorated with a white wavy line, an ornament traditional on loutrophoroi and derived from the serpent of geometric times." (Beazley)

Height 9.3 cm
Outside Diameter 29.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Charles Seltman, 1930

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