Amphora showing preparations for a sacrifice

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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?
      • 2 cows and 2 women
        • 2 cows = major/public sacrifice
        • 1 woman has her hair up the other down
      • 2 large tripods
    • 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
    • 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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