Prothesis, Dipylon Painter A517

Prothesis scene: exposure of the dead and mourning. Detail from a krater, ca. 750 BC (Late Geometric). From the Dipylon Cemetary in Athens.

Dimensions Unspecified
Credit line Purchase, 1884
Accession number A 517

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 40

Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)