The Dipylon Amphora, mid-8th century BC

The Dipylon Amphora, mid-8th century BC, with human figures for scale. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Athenian funerary amphora, Late geometric I.

The main scene shows the prothesis and mourning for the dead. Over the bier is the shroud. Men, women and a child lament with the hands on their heads in the usual mourning gesture.

Hirschfeld Krater

The Hirschfeld Krater, mid-8th century BC, from the late Geometric period, depicting ekphora, the act of carrying a body to its grave. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Geometric art details of Dipylon and Athens

Detail of a chariot from a late Geometric krater attributed to the Trachones workshop on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dipylon Vase of the late Geometric period, or the beginning of the Archaic period, c. 750 BC.

Pithos From Thebes. 675 BC

Geometric period
Pottery

 

Pithoi with relief representations were made in the 7th c. BC. in various regions(Crete, Rhodes and Cyclades,probably centred on Tenos), though they have also been found on Delos and Mykonos, Naxos, Melos, and Thera, in Boeotia, Eretria and Athens. From Thebes. 675 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Large Cypriot amphora

Geometric period
Pottery

 

Linear decoration and lotus flowers in red and black paint. Bichrome rythm. Cypro-Archaic I period 750 BC.