Funerary stele with depiction of loutrophoros

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The stele, a Greek original of the mid -4th c. BC, depicts a large, tall-necked vase (loutrophoros). On the body of the vessel are three male figures: a bearded man wearing a cloak (himation) and leaning on a staff, overpainted in antiquity: a younger man wearing a tunic and cloak: and finally a servant, ona  smaller scale. The names of the two main figures are carved above the scene in Greek letters: Euboulos and Euboulides, identifies on the basis of epigraphical sources as memebers of an important family from Attica. The loutrophoros, used in Greece for wedding rituals, probably alludes to Euboulos premature death before his marriage.