Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 450 B.C. Attributed to the Sabouroff Painter Prothesis (laying out of the dead)The prothesis, a central part of funerary ritual, is represented in the Metropolitan Museum's collection as early as the mid-eighth century B.C. The essential elementsthe deceased laid out on a bier, surrounded by members of the household and mournersremained unchanged over centuries. In this depiction, there is obvious interest in differentiating the mourners and exploiting the contrast between the light background and the surfaces of opaque color.. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) 247920

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Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 450 B.C. Attributed to the Sabouroff Painter Prothesis (laying out of the dead)The prothesis, a central part of funerary ritual, is represented in the Metropolitan Museum's collection as early as the mid-eighth century B.C. The essential elementsthe deceased laid out on a bier, surrounded by members of the household and mournersremained unchanged over centuries. In this depiction, there is obvious interest in differentiating the mourners and exploiting the contrast between the light background and the surfaces of opaque color.. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) 247920

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