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Geometric amphora from the Dipylon. The band in the height of the handles includes a metope with the main scene of the prothesis of the deceased (the deceased laying out on a couch). The vase was used as a funerary monument at the Dipylon of Kerameikos in Athens and it is the work of the Dipylon painter. It is dated to the middle of the 8th century BC.. - National Archaeological Museum