ART H 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dipylon Master, Amphora, Bier
17 Apr 2016
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Large amphora by dipylon master: stylistic variations from artist that we don"t know the real name of, known as the dipylon master . This particular amphora was too big to be used as a wine jar or ash vessel. Used in religious practices to pour a libation on a grave during the grave as an offering to a god or departed spirit. Hole on the bottom created to pour wine in the top and then it would trickle down to the ground to get to the departed. What we see first is a bier which is a table or platform set up to display a dead body during a funeral (also known as a prosthesis, prosthesis scene . The wife and son are weeping and wailing to the direct right of the body of the husband/father. Underneath the body are human sacrifices kneeling and they are mourning their impending death as well.
