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"title": "Geometric Neck-Handled Amphora (Storage Vessel): Prothesis (Laying out of Corpse), Mourners, Chariots",
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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.",
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"citation": "Ahlberg, Gudrun. \"Prothesis and Ekphora in Greek Geometric Art,\" Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology Vol. 32 (1971).",
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"citation": "Finkenstaedt, Elizabeth. \"Mycenaean Mourning Customs in Greek Painting.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 2 (1973).",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 8-9, fig. 11",
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"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.",
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens : [Exhibition]. Hanover, N.H.: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1992.",
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"citation": "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)",
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