Part of a loutrophoros

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Inventory number

ΝΑ 1955 Αα 2533

Artist

The Sabouroff Painter

Category

Vessel

Period

Classical Period

Date

455-440 BC

Dimensions

Height: 0.08 m
Width: 0.068 m

Material

Clay

Location

Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Case 5, No 44

Description
Bibliography

Part of a loutrophoros' body decorated in the red-figure technique. It was found in fragments in 1955 in the Sanctuary of the Nymphe and was reassembled.

It depicts either a wedding scene with the bride getting ready for the wedding, or the epavlia. The bride seated on a chair holds with both hands a decorated loutrophoros-hydria containing green branches. Behind her a woman stands holding a wreath with leaves to place on her. One more woman, from who only the arm survives, is standing in front of the bride and arranges in the loutrophoros the branches, which symbolise prosperity and fertility in the newlyweds common life.

BAPD, Beazley Archive Pottery Database, www.beazley.ox.ac.uk, αρ.κατ. 23406
Beazley, J. D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1963, σελ. 841.97-111
Καββαδίας, Γ., Ο ζωγράφος του Sabouroff, Αθήνα, 2000, σελ. 186, εικ. 7, 73, αρ.κατ. 84
Mösch-Klingele, R., Die Loutrophoros Im Hochzeits- und Begraebnisritual des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. in Athen, 2006, Bern, σελ. 228, εικ. 26, αρ.κατ. 21
Mösch-Klingele, R., Braut ohne Bräutigam: schwarz- und rotfigurige Lutrophoren als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen in Athen, 2010, Mainz am Rhein, σελ. 79, αρ.κατ. 27