Live gamikos
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Lebes Gamikos by the Sabouroff Painter with a wedding scene; Antikensammlung Berlin F 2404
The Lebes Gamikos ("wedding kettle ", from Lebes = kettle and Gamos = wedding; plural Lebetes gamikoi ) is a vessel shape used in Greek pottery .
The vessel, known as Lebes Gamikos, is large with a round body, long cylindrical neck, flat mouth and two double handles. It was used during wedding rites and was one of the bridal gifts. Live gamikoi were also used as grave goods in the cult of the dead and as consecration gifts to fertility deities.
literature
- Friederike Harl-Schaller: On the origin and meaning of the Attic life gamikos. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. 50, 1972-75, ISSN 0078-3579 , Beiblatt pp 151-170.
- Marina Sgourou: Lived gamikoi. In: John H. Oakley (Ed.): Athenian Potters and Painters (= Oxbow Monograph 67). Oxbow Books, Oxford 1997, ISBN 1-900188-12-0 , pp. 71-83.
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