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The Kleophrades Painter
Michael Padgett, Princeton University
18. Shapes: Loutrophoroi
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Three loutrophoroi by the painter have been found in Attica; the only complete example is Louvre CA 453 (ARV2, 184, 22).[90] This loutrophoros is of the amphora type, with elongated body and neck, echinus foot, large mouth, and looped handles attached to the neck along their length (Illustration 104).
The ornament, too, is like that on earlier, black-figure loutrophoroi, with rays on the lower body, rosettes on the handle struts, and wavy lines down the handles and around the mouth; even the row of black-figure horsemen below the main scene is traditional (Illustration 105;
Illustration 106;
Illustration 107;
Illustration 108;
Illustration 109;
Illustration 110).
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As often on loutrophoroi, the main subject, a prothesis, relates to the role of such vessels in funerary cult. A dead youth is laid out on a bier surrounded by mourners (Illustration 111;
Illustration 112;
Illustration 113);
the males are confined to the reverse of the body, all extending one hand in a ritual gesture of lament (Illustration 114). [92]
The mourners on the neck and around the bier are all female. Fragments of one of the painter's loutrophoroi from the Kerameikos preserve parts of a prothesis and a group of warriors. The second Kerameikos example had red-figure instead of black-figure horsemen below the main scene.[93]
90. See M. Collignon, "Loutrophore attique a sujet funéraire, Musée du Louvre," MonPiot 1 (1894) 49-60.
91. For a black-figure example of similar shape and ornament, also with a prothesis scene and row of horsemen, see Richter & Milne 1935, fig. 40.
92. This gesture is also traditional; cf. the male mourners on a black-figure plaque by Lydos (Vlasto collection, Athens; ABV, 113, 84). On a later loutrophoros of similar type, Philadelphia 30-4-1; Illustration 115 (ARV2, 841, 112 and 990, 45), a row of gesturing men by the Sabouroff Painter is placed on the lower body below a battle scene by the Achilles Painter.
93. See Knigge 1970, pls. 7-8. On the painter's black-figure neck amphora, Würzburg 222 (ABV, 405, 20), instead of horsemen, there is a row of black animals below the main scenes (Illustration 116;
Illustration 117;
Illustration 118;
Illustration 119
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