Clarch 221 Exam 2

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Protogeometric Belly Handled Amphora

Kerameikos, Athens (Attica)

1025 - 900 BCE

Ceramic?

Significance: There is a horse drawn on it. It is still geometric in figure, but it shows that representational art is beginning to return

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Middle Protogeometric Krater

1025 - 900 BCE

Lefkandi, Euboea

Ceramic?

Sig: Used to mix wine and water; The tree of life motif underneath the handle shows that representational art is beginning to return

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Tomb of the Rich Athenian Lady

The Athenian Agora

Early Geometric period (900 - 700 BCE)

- Earlier 9th century BCE

Sig: held a lot of burial items including Jewelry, an attic-belly handled amphora, terracotta granary model, spindle whorls, etc

We know it was a lady because belly handled amphoras were used in female tombs

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Dipylon Vase

Dipylon Cemetary near Kerameikos

Attic Belly-handled amphora

Late Geometric II (ca.750 BCE)

Sig: Used as a grave marker for a female (belly-handled amphora); Massive height (1.55M); Shows funeral scene in which there is a woman in a skirt laying down on a funeral bier with people around them taking place in a mourning ritual in which they rip their hair out; Possible child next to the burial and a burial shroud surrounds the woman

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