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Date : approx. between 520 and 510 B.C.
Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1954)
| Prothesis (laying out of the dead)
Item 21 on 25
Greek Antiquities
Sculpture
Vitrine : V01
Area related
Attique (Greece)
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During the Archaic period, burials shafts in Attica were often covered with solid, rectangular, houselike structures with plastered mud-brick walls. A series of terracotta plaques showing different stages of the funeral were probably set into the outer walls.
In the latter sixth century B.C., the elaborate series of funerary plaques were replaced by single plaques with holes for attachment.
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