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Summary

Artist

Dipylon Master
Description	Greek vase painter and ceramic artist
Work period	between circa 760 and circa 735 BC
Work location	Athens
Authority control	WorldCat

Object type

Krater

Description

Prothesis scene: exposure of the dead and mourning. Detail. Late Geometric. From the Dipylon Cemetary in Athens.

Date

circa 750 BC

Medium

silhouette on terracotta

Dimensions

Width: 58 cm (22.8 in). (fragment)

Current location

( Inventory) Louvre Museum

	Native name	Musée du Louvre
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.36″ E
	Established	1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

Céramiques et terres cuites, room 40: Galerie Campana I. Sully, 1 ^st floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities).

Accession number

A 517

Object history

Place of discovery: Dipylon cemetery, Athens.

Credit line

Purchase, 1884

Notes

place made: Athens

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 6126
1008009, Paris, Musee du Louvre, A517. The Beazley Archive. Retrieved on 4 April 2012.
Coldstream, John Nicolas (1968) Greek geometric pottery: a survey of ten local styles and their chronology., London: Methuen, pp. 29-30.

Source/Photographer

Jastrow (2006)

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