Aloutrophoros (Ancient Greek:λουτροφόρος,romanized: loutrophóros,lit. 'loutrophoros';Greek etymology: λουτρόν/loutron and φέρω/pherō,English translation: "bathwater" and "carry") is a distinctive type ofGreek potteryvessel characterized by an elongated neck with twohandles. The loutrophoros was used to carry water for a bride's pre-nuptial ritual bath, and in funeral rituals, and was placed in the tombs of the unmarried.^[1] The loutrophoros itself is a motif for Greek tombstones, either as arelief (for instance, thelekythos on theStele ofPanaetius) or as a stone vessel. There are many in the funeral area at theKerameikos inAthens, some of which are now preserved in theNational Archaeological Museum of Athens.

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  Attic black-figure loutrophoros-hydria; late 6th century BC
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  Attic black-figure loutrophoros-amphora with aprothesis scene, 510–500 BC
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  Keramikos Museum, Athens, Marble loutrophoros from the grave of Agathon and Sosykrates
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  Apulian egg-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus I, variant I), 330 BC
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  Oversize ("huge") Apulian cylinder-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus II, variant I), 330 BC
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  Apulian cylinder-shaped loutrophoros (Apulian typus II, variant II) by theBaltimore Painter; c. 330 BC;Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España (1998/92/2)

• Ancient Greek vase painting
• Pottery of ancient Greece

• Richter, Gisela M. A. (1928). A Newly Acquired Loutrophoros.The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 2, Part 1, pp. 54–57.

• Kokula, Gerit (1984).Marmorlutrophoren [Marble loutrophoroi]. Berlin: Gebr. Mann,ISBN 3-7861-1391-2 (in German).
• Mösch-Klingele, Rosmarie (2010).Braut ohne Bräutigam. Schwarz- und rotfigurige Lutrophoren als Spiegel gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen in Athen [Bride without groom. Black- and red-figure Lutrophoroi as a mirror of social change in Athens]. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern,ISBN 978-3-8053-4094-6 (in German).
• Παπαδοπούλου-Κανελλοπούλου, Χαρίκλεια (1997).Ιερό της Νύμφης. Μελανόμορφες λουτροφόροι [Sanctuary of the nymphs. Black-figured Loutrophoroi]. Athens,ISBN 960-214-104-2 (in Greek).

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