Amphora showing preparations for a sacrifice
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- Created on: 21-02-22 12:19
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- Amphora showing preparation for Sacrifice
- Red Figure 450BC
- What is shown?
- 2 interpretations
- preparations for a public sacrifices
- role of women
- decorating bulls with stemmata (garlands)
- Celebration of a victory at festival of Dionysus
- tripod prizes
- goddesses?
- preparations for a public sacrifices
- 2 cows and 2 women
- 2 cows = major/public sacrifice
- 1 woman has her hair up the other down
- 2 large tripods
- 2 interpretations
- How is it useful?
- women can do this task
- public visibility, public role
- importance of sacrifice
- preparation required, sense of occasion and financial commitment
- importance of adorning sacrificial animals
- different adornments are used to how Homer describes in the Odyssey
- shows variation to preparation or evolvement of this process
- women can do this task
- Limitations
- who is this sacrifice for?
- What festival is this?
- possibly City Dionysia because of the tripods prizes?)
- different interpretations of who the women are and what they are doing (are they goddesses receiving the sacrifice?)
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