The grave vases of the Geometric period provide information about the social and economic status of the dead. Attic Geometric amphora from the Kerameikos. 755-750 BC. The vase served as a marker on the grave of a large aristocratic family. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 804. Hellenic Ministry of Culture/Archaeological Receipts Fund. Tiverios, M., Elliniki Techni: Archaia Angeia, Ekdotiki Athinon, Athens 1996, p. 50, fig. 2. © Hellenic Ministry of Culture
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