Hydriai and Loutrophoros. Copenhagen White Sakkos Painter.
Apulta. 330-320, and 350-330 BCE

Wedding Vases
for a Woman's Grave
Hydriai and loutrophoros once held the
water for her ritual bridal bath and formed
part of her dowry. Now they depict her new home, the gynaeceum of Hades, god of the underworld. The new wife's future
life was idealised in the afterfife through images of actions aiready experienced and now transformed into the expression of a higher, nobler existence. in marrying a god, she would became immortal herself

Exhibited in the Madrid National Archaeological Museum, Madrid, Spain.

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Amphora Art Ceramics Classical Clay Hydria Loutrophoros Madrid Madrid National Archaeological Museum Original Photo Pottery Spain