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A 5 page research paper/analysis that examines and discusses a vase from the Greek Geometric period. The writer describes this vase in detail, places it within the context of its historical period and argues as to the meaning of its illustrations. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Museum of Art, 14.130.14) is a terracotta krater funerary vase attributed to the Hirschfield Workshop and known as the Dipylon Vase.2 Estimated to have been produced between 750-735 B.C., this
vase is from the Attic period.3 There is little verifiable information from this period of Greek history that informs scholars as to the precise meanings of the geometric figures
provide the ornamentation on this krater. Two interpretations that have been offered are that they represent figures from the military career of the deceased, or "the glorious ancestry and traditions
to which the dead man belonged."4 Of these two interpretations, it is more likely that the geometric figures in the second band of ornamentation represent the heroic past, due to
clues that are inherent in the vases design. This krater stands 42.4 inches in height and was wheel-thrown in sections and then assembled.5 The top of the vase shows a
"variation on the meander called the stepped meander."6 This meander frames the sections that follow, which includes depictions of mourners and the deceased and his family. The rounded top of
the base sits on a single pedestal. The illustrations the main body of the vase, with alternating bands of yellow geometrical pattern and black occurring towards the bottom o the
base and down the pedestal. There are two main strips of illustrations divided by a geometric band. To either side of the vase are ornamentations that appear to be handles,
but are too small to have actually been useful in lifting a vase of this size. Starting from the left-hand side of the vase, as pictured in the photo
on the Metropolitan Museum website, there is a pattern above stick figures that have their hands raised in mourning. These figures, which are mourners pulling at their hair, have above
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