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Lebes gamikos

Lebes gamikos





Artist : Anonymous

Date : near 420 B.C.

Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1915)
Item 36 on 81
Greek Antiquities
Container

Vitrine : V01

Area related
Attique (Greece)

Description   

When the major Greek vase shapes were made as miniatures, they most commonly served as funerary offerings in children's graves. Before burial, they may have been used as toys. The subject here one both the body is the gift-giving on the day after a wedding.
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