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The Art and Archaeology of Death
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- 1What is the term for the laying out of the dead?Prothesis
- 2Where is the main Athenian cemetery?Karameikos
- 3One example of prothesis?c750 late-geometric krater from the Dipylon cemetery
- 4What is the procession from the home to the cemetery called?Ekphora
- 5Where is this shown?745-740 late-geometric krater
- 6What were grave monuments?free-standing sculpture and gravestones
- 7Purpose of these?Stable representation of the dead for the living. permanent and unchanging
- 8What are some of these markers called?Kouros
- 9Where are funeral rituals most shown?White-ground lekythoi which are placed in graves
- 10What are images on the lekythoi?images of funeral rituals including women, lament at the grave, and arming ritual
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