{"data": {"id": 109391, "accession_number": "1927.6", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots, c. 720\u2013700 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", "current_location": "102B Greek", "title": "Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots", "creation_date": "c. 720\u2013700 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -725, "creation_date_latest": -655, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["Greek, Attic"], "technique": "ceramic", "support_materials": [], "department": "Greek and Roman Art", "collection": "GR - Greek", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Overall: 60 cm (23 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.6, "height_inch": 23, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 300779, "title": "Juxtapositions", "description": "<i>Juxtapositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-09-11T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>From Pature to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer,</em> Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri (October 9, 1993- December 5, 1993).", "opening_date": "1993-10-09T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Roussos, sold to Brummer Gallery", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1926", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1926-1927", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1927-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The better-preserved side of this vase is actually its reverse.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "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.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60756864"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1927.6-geometric-neck-handl"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.", "page_number": "BAPD 1001463", "url": "http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/29D0BE72-F8F6-427C-A111-22559FB7B99D"}, {"citation": "The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.", "page_number": "P3649", "url": "https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/29428/rec/47"}, {"citation": "R. 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