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Water-carrying in connexion with marriage 375

to the last third of the fifth century B.C. (pi. xxxv, figs. 236—239)1.
A point connecting them with the 'Dipylon' amphorae* is that some
early examples have their handles adorned with snakes3, while many
have rims and handles marked with a snaky pattern4. The usage of
loutrophoroi lasted on into the fourth century, and late examples,
made on a smaller scale, acquired a third handle under the influence
°f the three-handled hydria*. Other evidence of the shapes taken
by fourth-century loutrophoroi may be found in the magnificent
Senes of marble stelai yielded by Attic graves6. These extend in

W. Zschietzschmann 'Die Darstellungen der Prothesis in der griechischen Kunst'
'n the Ath. Mitth. 1928 liii. 17—47 pis- 8—18 includes useful lists of Attic black-figured
"trophdroi (pp. 40—43 nos. 44—83) and Attic red-figured loutrophdroi (p. 44 f. nos.
95 H7). The finest example of the former is that in New York published by G. M. A.
Mchter in the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1928 xxiii. 54—57 figs. 1—3
jj" dated c. 525 B.C. My pi. xxxv is from the official photograph, kindly lent by
r C. D. Bicknell. I also figure :
j«) Three broken specimens found together at Trachones near Athens and now at
a ln (Fwtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin i. 371 ff. nos. 1887—1889, G. Henzen in the
i d. Ins(, 1843 xv. 276 ff., Mon. d. Inst, iii pi. 60 (a composite drawing, of which my
23*> a, b is a part), O. Benndorf Griechische und sieilische Vasenbilder Berlin 1877 p. 6
t^ ' *~~S)- The main design on each vase is a black-figured prdthesis, with mourners on
neck and animal-zone or horsemen below.
'.A vase in the Louvre (CA. 453) (M. Collignon 'Loutrophore attique a sujet
#5j/aire' *n 'he Mon. Piot 1894 i. 49—60 with figs. 1 and 2 and pis. 5—7, Perrot—Chipiez
(*= c ^^rt x- ^74 ff- ftgs- 3^5' 37°> 37'> Corp. vas. ant. Louvre iii 1 c pi. 56, 1—3
Prtti

•J £• 237 a—c) with text p. (45) by E. Pottier). The main design is a red-figured

th , s,s' W'th red-figured mourners on the neck and black-figured horsemen towards

l>as °0'' J- D. Beazley in the fount. Nell. Stud. 1910 xxx. 67 no. 35, id. Attische
iQeo ta'er des i-otfigurigen Stils Tubingen 1925 p. 71 no. 19 assigns the vase to the

£n . ^les painter ('Schiller des Euthymides'), cp. Leonard in Pauly—Wissowa Real-

fophrad,

803 no. 35 ('Zeitgenosse des Euphronios oder Euthymides')
no. j j, ^a,Se ^ronl Athens, now at Berlin (Furtwangler Vasensamml. Berlin ii. 645 ff.
J38)

238) ^Xh^' Sa"""t- SabouroffVasen col. pis. 58 main subject, 59 ensemble ( = my fig.
Qn eithe-6-^0^"^3'^11 's a re<^"%uretl bridal procession, with an elongated female figure

(^) Xside ofthe neck-

'^otfip • ^a'Se *°unct at Athens and now in the Schliemann collection (P. Wolters
ar"l col "f6 LutroPhor°s' in the Ath. Mitth. 1891 xvi. 371—405 figs. 2 ( = my fig. 239)—4
the dead^ ' ' ^e mam design's a red-figured scene of dedications at a sepulchral stile,
2 Supr^- ^e'nS apparently represented as an equestrian statue.

6 P Vn J ^8" 01 '• 3 Supra pi. xxxv. 4 Supra pi. xxxv and figs. 236—239.

^issowa ,? rs in the Ath- Mitth. 1891 p. 384 nos. 31 and 34, Nachod in Pauly—
, A last tef'^"'' Xi"- IO" f'

^°uri0n in^"11 t'le ser'es may perhaps be found in a fluted hydria of red ware from
height- ^'Pros> formerly in the Pierides collection and now in mine (fig. 240a—d.
^ree handle ^ TIlis vase to° has no bottom to it, and is further pierced under its
tisitlg aboveeS>, tllrCe IloIes, the PurP°se of which is not clear (? to prevent contents
6 Nachod / leVel °f the handles> even if foot were blocked).

2i2- 367_ °.c' "'■ P- 2°99 notes: 'Conze Att. Grabreliefs Taf. 56. 92. 100. 131. 216.

Jf2~~29o m5,. dplastisch,: Taf- 53- '3°- '44- I95—I97- 200- 203. 216. 224—225. 271.
° P- Card Stden); Taf- 379-38J (Kioniskoi mit Reliefs nach 317 v. Chr.).' See
er Sculptured Tombs of Hellas London 1896 p. 113 ff. pi. 4 f.