Attic Pentelic Marble Hydria-Loutrophoros
ca. 375-350 BC
MS 5710
The shape of this stone grave marker is based on the three-handled terracotta
water vessel traditionally used to supply purification water for funerals.
The handles are now missing. The vase depicts a couple bidding their young
daughter Malthake farewell. A stele of the same Malthake in New York's Metropolitan
Museum of Art was probably the principal monument set over her grave, leaving
our hydria-loutrophoros to serve as her secondary memorial. The grave site
was probably the district of Markopoulos in Attica recorded in the epitaph
on the Metropolitan's stele.
H. 81.0; Dia. 34.0 cm. UM neg. S8-46897.