Sacrifice Amphora

Question 1

What is the significance of the sacrifice amphora?

Answer 1

Depicts the process of the preparation of cattle for sacrifice by adorning them with woolen fillets (garlands)

Question 2

What are potential issues with the sacrifice amphora?

Answer 2

Doesn’t show the actual sacrifice, not likely to be ordinary mortal women, on a vase so may be simplified, at Dionysia so may be special occasion not typical

Question 3

Who are the women on the sacrifice amphora likely to be?

Answer 3

Personifications of Nike or the phyle that won the choregic contest

Question 4

What does the front of the sacrifice amphora depict?

Answer 4

2 women preparing bulls for sacrifice by adorning them with garlands, both finely dressed in a peplos with earrings and one with a diadem

Question 5

What does the back of the sacrifice amphora depict?

Answer 5

2 women and 2 men with libation about to be poured

Question 6

What is behind the bulls on the sacrifice amphora?

Answer 6

Tripods on raised platforms, typical prizes for victors in choregic contests so suggests a double victory celebration by a phyle