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Water-carrying in connexion with marriage 387

Ceramic evidence further assures us that a loittroplwros might be
carried by a mourning maiden in the funeral procession (fig. 237)1, ~T j :
and set up on the summit of the grave-mound—a custom traceable
from the early fifth2 to the late fourth century (fig. 253)3. Again, we

■AM- iii. 2 no. 1981, A. Conze op. fit. Berlin—Leipzig 1911—1922 iv. 16 no. 1778 pi. 379
(^rny fig. 251)). The sunk relief shows an ornamental loittrophdros, with akrotiria on
|ts rim and a tainla slung from its handles. Above it, in lettering of imperial date, is
lnscribed 'AiroX\6dapo9 | "Zwtov \ 'Pafivovtrios. Hymettian marble. Height v^6m.

From a red-figured loittroplwros, dating from the first third of s. v, in the Louvre
{s"^a V- 375 n. 1 (4)).

Supra ii. io56ff. fig. 912.
M. Mayer in the Ath. Mitth. 1891 xvi. 310 n. 2 and P. Wolters id. p. 389^ with fig.
my ng- 252) draw attention to an early yellow-ground llkythos, from Eretria, at Athens

ip , Fig- 252. Fig

oll'gnon—r

With a "~ouve Cat. Vases (TAlhiiies p. 330 no. 1061), on which, behind a woman
"^corated. °^ ^unera' offerings, is a large amphora set on a rectangular base and
Indies ^ a cava"er m black-figured technique. The black figure and the long

3 g^tren8t'iened with struts indicate that the amphora, is of terra cotta.
at Ruv 'aCt ^roni tne reverse design of a red-figured amphora, careless in style, found
Stecher U °W.*' Naples (Heydemann Vasensamml. Neapel p. 204 no. 2147, R- Pagen-
'9l2 p 2_ -"-talische Grabdenkmdler (Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslands xciv) Strassburg
^""fitHtnu ' '3' a' M'tt/u '912 xxv"- >°3 '> G. F. Oeconomus De

°fteri the "' receftaculis sepulcralibits Athenis 1921 p. 25 f. fig. 4 ( = my fig. 253)). As is
^agenstec^aSe'. vase snown resembles in shape the vase upon which it is painted.
not "ttetal 1 ri^'ltly infe»s from the black figure that the vase shown is of terra cotta,

°ecoii'0 observes that its foot is firmly planted in the grave-mound.
Careless in US P- 27 f- fig- 5 cp. the obverse design of a red-figured neck-amphora,

f' *Pt''- i86fityle' found at Nola» now in Petrograd (L. Stephani in the Compte-rendtt
(Urg ii- 220 P 38 n°' *5 with fig" on P- ( = n,y n8- J5*)' iJ- Vasensamml. St. Peters-

en)> and "° '598^' Between two Ionic columns, on which are perched a soul-bird
an owl, is seen a large one-handled jug half-sunk in the ground.

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