id: 109391 accession number: 1927.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.6 updated: 2022-05-17 09:00:08.997000 Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots, c. 720–700 BC. 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 title: Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 720–700 BC creation date earliest: -725 creation date latest: -655 current location: 102B Greek creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Greek, Attic technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Workshop of Athens 894 (Greek, Attic, Late Geometric llb) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 60 cm (23 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * From Pature to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri (October 9, 1993- December 5, 1993). --- PROVENANCE Roussos, sold to Brummer Gallery date: ?-1926 footnotes: citations: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1926-1927 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1927- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The better-preserved side of this vase is actually its reverse. digital 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. wall description: The largest find of Geometric Period vases was at the Dipylon Cemetery in Athens. Apparently these vessels have a funerary use, perhaps as ossuaries. Their style is called Geometric because all designs—even animals and people—are deliberately reduced to flat geometric forms and linear motifs depicting only the essentials. Neck, side A: funeral couch; side B: procession of mourning women. Body, top register: seven chariots; lower register: hounds pursue a hare. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 1001463 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/29D0BE72-F8F6-427C-A111-22559FB7B99D The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. page number: P3649 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/29428/rec/47 R. H. "Two Greek Vases." 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Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 8-9, fig. 11 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. page number: p. 2 url: Neils, Jenifer. Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens : [Exhibition]. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992. page number: p. 79 url: Langdon, Susan Helen. From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. page number: pp. 87-91, cat. 20. url: Kozloff, Arielle, and Nino Urushadze. "Animal Style Bronze Art and Its Closest Parallels: A Bronze Belt and Axe Head." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 5 (1994) page number: p. 127, fig. 10 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161453 Wilder, Jesse Bryant, Vernard Foley, Philip Neuman, and Gloria Wilder. Antigone & the Greek World. Cleveland, OH: Nexus, 1997. page number: p. 13 url: Coldstream, J. N. Greek Geometric Pottery: A Survey of Ten Local Styles and Their Chronology. Exeter, Devon: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2008. page number: p. 58, XI.6 url: Oakley, John H., "Women in Athenian Ritual and Funerary Art," pp. 335-341 (ill. Fig. 1) in Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens, 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). page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.6/1927.6_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.6/1927.6_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.6/1927.6_full.tif