The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Discovered at the Dipylon cemetery, this stylistic vessel belonging to the Geometric period is credited to an unknown artist: the Dipylon Master. The amphora is covered entirely in ornamental and geometric patterns, as well as human figures and animal-filled motifs. It is also structurally precise, being that it is as tall as it is wide. These decorations use up every inch of space, and are painted on using the black-figure technique to create the silhouetted shapes. Inspiration for the Greek vase derived not only from its intended purpose as a funerary vessel, but also from artistic remnants of Mycenaean civilization prior to its collapse around 1100 BC. The Dipylon Amphora signifies the passing of an aristocratic woman, who is illustrated along with the procession of her funeral consisting of mourning family and friends situated along the belly of the vase. The woman's nobility and status is further emphasized by the plethora of detail and characterized animals, all which remain in bands circling the neck and belly of the amphora.
Detail of mourners below the handle, geometric patterns and animal friezes on the neck
The DipylonAmphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological...
Dipylon Kraters are Geometric period Greek terracotta funerary vases found at the Dipylon cemetery; near the Dipylon Gate, in Kerameikos. Kerameikos is...
to the Dipylon Master and his workshop. Examples include the DipylonAmphora in National Archaeological Museum, Athens, and the Elgin Amphora in the British...
oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others. One famous example is the Dipylonamphora. Every-day vases were often not painted, but wealthy Greeks could afford...
900–850 BC) one finds only abstract motifs, in what is called the "Black Dipylon" style, which is characterized by extensive use of black varnish, with...
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62 meter amphora that was made by the Dipylon painter in around 760–750 BC. The vase was a grave marker to an aristocratic woman in the Dipylon cemetery...
mourners to see, called prothesis. An example of this was painted on the Dipylonamphora. Next, was the ekphora, which is the moving of the body to a cemetery...
slaves. Many of the potters of Athens assembled between the agora and the Dipylon, in the Kerameikon. They most often operated as small workshops, consisting...
ran along the Panathenaic Way in a northwesterly direction towards the Dipylon Gate. There are traces of a polygonal wall about 6 metres north of the...
Greek pottery. Intermediate between a pithos (large storage vessel) or amphora (transport vessel), and individual cups or bowls, it held fluid for several...
particularly widespread. There are also paintings and motifs on amphorae and Dipylon cups which depict winged centaurs. Centaurs were also frequently depicted...
uncovered the Nessos Amphora, a late seventh-century BCE amphora which he took to be a container for a cremation burial from the nearby Dipylon cemetery. In modern...
often densely covering most of the surface, as in the large pots by the Dipylon Master, who worked around 750. He and other potters around his time began...
of South Etruria, Amsterdam, 2003 ISBN 90-72067-10-X "Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar) ca. 560 B.C. - Attributed to the Goltyr Painter". Images...
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