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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.
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109391
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Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots
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109391
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object
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Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots
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.
date
c. 720–700 BCE
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60756864
creators
10987
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Ceramic
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Overall: 60 cm (23 5/8 in.)
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Greek, Attic
accession
1927.6
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ceramic
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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). Ceramic; overall: 60 cm (23 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1927.6
collection
GR - Greek
didYouKnow
The better-preserved side of this vase is actually its reverse.
citations
citation
Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
page_number
BAPD 1001463
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The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
page_number
P3649
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R. H. "Two Greek Vases." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 14, no. 6 (1927): 99-101.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 74
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Cook, J.M. <em>British School at Athens </em>35 (1934-35).
page_number
p. 181
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Cook, J.M. <em>British School at Athens 42</em> (1947).
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pp. 144, 146, 148, pl. 21
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 24
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Hubbell, H. M., and William S. Anderson. <em>Yale Classical Studies</em>, Volume Sixteen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
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p. 41, fig. 34
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Hill, Dorothy Kent. "Accessions to the Greek Collection," <em>Journal of the Walters Art Gallery </em>vol. 24 (1961).
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p. 40, fig. 2
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Carter, Martha L. <em>Classical Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 1
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Carter, Martha L. <em>Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,</em> 1961.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 1; Reproduced: Plate 1
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Boulter, C. G., Jenifer Neils, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum.</em> Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.
page_number
pp. 3-4, pls. 2-3, I
citation
Ahlberg, Gudrun. "Prothesis and Ekphora in Greek Geometric Art," <em>Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology </em>Vol. 32 (1971).
page_number
fig. 36
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Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. "Mycenaean Mourning Customs in Greek Painting." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 2 (1973).
page_number
pp. 37-43
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 8-9, fig. 11
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Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.
page_number
p. 2
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Neils, Jenifer. <em>Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens</em> : [Exhibition]. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992.
page_number
p. 79
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Langdon, Susan Helen. <em>From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer</em>. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
page_number
pp. 87-91, cat. 20.
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Kozloff, Arielle, and Nino Urushadze. "Animal Style Bronze Art and Its Closest Parallels: A Bronze Belt and Axe Head." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 5 (1994)
page_number
p. 127, fig. 10
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Wilder, Jesse Bryant, Vernard Foley, Philip Neuman, and Gloria Wilder.<em> Antigone & the Greek World</em>. Cleveland, OH: Nexus, 1997.
page_number
p. 13
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Coldstream, J. N. <em>Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology</em>. Exeter, Devon: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008.
page_number
p. 58, XI.6
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Oakley, John H., "Women in Athenian Ritual and Funerary Art," pp. 335-341 (ill. Fig. 1) in <em>Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens, </em>eds. Nikos E. Kaltsas and H. A. Shapiro (New York, N.Y.: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 2008).
citation
Murray, Sarah. Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 269
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 05:50:36.244000
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109391
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Greek and Roman Art
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GR - Greek
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ceramic
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