Shoulder fragment with part of ring at junction with neck. Max. dim. 0.095.

Woman (head with hair tied up with fillets) to left before a loutrophoros-hydria (mouth, start of vertical handle, top of neck). Sprigs of myrtle or ivy project from mouth of vessel. The woman may be tying fillets around the loutrophoros, for there seems to be part of her hand at the break between her and the vessel. Above, tongue pattern. Red: fillets on head; myrtle; two curved lines to either side of neck (fillet).

The woman stands near the right handle, on the right of the composition, because the tongue pattern ends above her head. For sprigs or branches in representations of loutrophoroi, see Ginouvès, Balaneutikè , p. 273; M. Blech, Studien zum Kranz bei den Griechen [Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 38], Berlin 1982, pp. 442--443 (combined with examples of lebetes gamikoi, an amphora, and hydriai); most recently, Lezzi-Hafter, Eretria-Maler, p. 260, note 467.

In almost all the examples that I have been able to find of loutrophoroi painted on well-preserved loutrophoroi, the painted type is the same as the potted, i.e., loutrophoroi-amphorae appear on loutrophoroi-amphorae and the same for the hydria variety. Amphora type: Karlsruhe 69.78, near the Naples Painter (ARV2 1102, ---, 2; Paralip. 451, 2; Addenda 329; AGRP Copenhagen, pp. 654--659); Athens, N.M. 1453 by the Washing Painter (ARV2 1127, 18; Paralip. 453, 18; Addenda 332); two unattributed: Sarajevo 419 + 422 (CVA, Sarajevo 1 [Yougoslavie 4], pl. 29 [156]:2) and Sarajevo 418 (CVA, pl. 31 [158]:1, 2). Hydria type: Houston 37.10 by the Pan Painter (ARV2 554, 79; Addenda 258); London, B.M. GR 1931.1--14.3 by the Washing Painter (ARV2 1127, 9); Eleusis 635 by the Painter of the Naples Hydriskai (ARV2 1266, 1); Athens, N.M. 12540, near the Eretria Painter (ARV2 1256, 11; Oakley and Sinos, Wedding . . . Athens, p. 71, fig. 39). By analogy, 78 and 81, each of which shows a representation of a loutrophoros-hydria, ought to come from this variant and 85, which shows a loutrophoros-amphora, from this type. A fragment in Tübingen, S./10 1640 = E 110, by the Painter of London E 183 preserves part of a loutrophoros, but one cannot be certain which type (ARV2 1191, 2; Addenda 342). This is also the case for an unattributed late-5th-century loutrophoros in Essen (H. Froning, Katalog der griechischen und italischen Vasen: Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen 1982, p. 209). The spoiler may be an unattributed fragmentary loutrophoros-amphora, Oxford 1966.888, which shows Eros holding two loutrophoroi, a hydria, and an amphora (ArchReports 1967--1968, p. 59, no. 67, fig. 19; Reeder, Pandora, pp. 168--169, cat. no. 25).

Near the Boreas Painter (ARV2 540, 6).