Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The loutrophoroi are not closed at the bottom, indicating that they were made for the tomb. Decorated in a similar technique as the two pyxides (boxes) nearby (06.1021.253 and 28.57.5), they originally had pink and yellow garlands around the center of the body. The loutrophoroi; the pyxis 06.1021.253a, b; the funnel vase 06.1021.248a, b; and the two-handled vase 06.1021.246a, b come from the rich burials of a warrior and a woman found at Canosa in 1895.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.

Metropolitan Museum of Art