A loutrophoros (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic pe ...

: λουτροφόρος;

Greek etymology Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), southern ...

: λουτρόν/loutron and φέρω/pherō, English translation: "bathwater" and "carry") is a distinctive type of

Greek pottery Ancient Greek pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exe ...

vessel characterized by an elongated neck with two

handle A handle is a part of, or attachment to, an object that allows it to be grasped and manipulated by hand. The design of each type of handle involves substantial ergonomic issues, even where these are dealt with intuitively or by following tr ...

s. The loutrophoros was used to carry water for a bride's pre-nuptial ritual bath, and in funeral rituals, and was placed in the tombs of the unmarried.Richter, p. 57. The loutrophoros itself is a motif for Greek tombstones, either as a

relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

(for instance, the

lekythos A lekythos (plural lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil (Greek λήκυθος), especially olive oil Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of ''Olea europaea''; family Oleaceae), a traditiona ...

on the

Stele A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek language, Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ...

Panaetius Panaetius (; grc-gre, Παναίτιος, Panaítios; – ) of Rhodes was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before moving to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic ...

) or as a stone vessel. There are many in the funeral area at the

Kerameikos Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...

, some of which are now preserved in the

National Archaeological Museum of Athens The National Archaeological Museum ( el, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο) in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is ...

. File:Antikensammlung Kiel 367.JPG, Attic black-figure loutrophoros-hydria; late 6th century BC File:Antikensammlung Berlin 431.JPG, Attic black-figure loutrophoros-amphora with a prothesis scene, 510-500 BC File:0927 - Keramikos Museum, Athens - Loutrophoros from the grave of Agathon and Sosykrates - Photo by Giova.jpg, Keramikos Museum, Athens, Marble loutrophoros from the grave of Agathon and Sosykrates File:Getty Villa - Collection (5304589839).jpg,

Apulia it, Pugliese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographic ...

n egg-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus I, variant I), 330 BC File:Loutrophoros Antikensammlung Kiel B 787 (3).jpg, Oversize ("huge") Apulian cylinder-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus II, variant I), 330 BC File:Loutrophoros Baltimore Painter (M.A.N. 1998-92-2) 01.jpg, Apulian cylinder-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus II, variant II) by the

Baltimore Painter The Baltimore Painter was an Apulian vase painter whose works date to the final quarter of the 4th century BC. He is considered the most important Late Apulian vase painter, and the last Apulian painter of importance. His conventional name is der ...

; c. 330 BC;

Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España The National Archaeological Museum ( es, Museo Arqueológico Nacional; MAN) is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the National Library of Spain. History The museu ...

(1998/92/2)

References

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*Richter, Gisela M. A. (1928). A Newly Acquired Loutrophoros. ''The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin'', Vol. 23, No. 2, Part 1, pp. 54–57.

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Image of the Relief-Loutrophoros of Panaetius
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