kallistoi: lionofchaeronea: Attic black-figure terracotta funerary plaque.  Above, a scene of p

kallistoi:

lionofchaeronea:

Attic black-figure terracotta funerary plaque.  Above, a scene of prothesis (laying out of the dead); below, a chariot race.  Artist unknown; ca. 520-510 BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[image description: a photo of the funerary plaque described above. there are two zones of painted decoration. the topmost, which is much longer, shows various people with their arms raised in mourning, standing around a corpse that’s been laid out. the smaller zone below shows three charioteers racing.]