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Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots

c. 720–700 BCE

attributed to Workshop of Athens 894

(Greek, Attic, Late Geometric llb)
Culture
Greek, Attic
Medium
ceramic
Measurements
Overall: 60 cm (23 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.6
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Location
102B Greek
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Description

This neck-amphora bears multiple forms of decoration related to funerary ritual. On the neck panels, mourners beat their heads or tear out their hair. Some surround a bier, a platform where the body of the deceased lies beneath a checkered cloth. Further down, a procession of two-horse chariots moves around the vase, whether headed to the cemetery or the battlefield. The snakes applied to the handles, neck, and rim may all allude to the underworld.
Light-brown with red-orange detailing ceramic neck-amphora, a vessel with a wide body narrowing to a pointed base and a neck about as long as the body with two handles connecting the neck to the body. Continuous geometric zig-zag and square patterns intersperse with bands depicting repeated abstracted, thin-lined figures. On the neck, people raise their hands to their hair, on the body processes two-horse drawn chariots, and, below, scrawny dog-like creatures lay down.

Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots

c. 720–700 BCE

Workshop of Athens 894

(Greek, Attic, Late Geometric llb)
Greek, Attic

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