Painting / -1000 to -700
Lying-in-state with mourners
Painting on geometric amphora
800 B.C. approx.
Wosien, Maria-Gabriele: Sacred dance – encounter with the Gods, plate 33. London, Thames and Hudson, plate 26. 1974. [b11705]
Ancient Greece
Round dance of men and forminx player. 750 B.C., approx.
Vase found in Anavyssos, Attica, Greece
Four men dancing led by a musician (forminx player). 750 B.C., approx.
Vase found in Dipylon, Attica
Three male dancers and musician
Painting on terracotta vase
15 cm without the handles
740 B.C., approx.
Germany, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Cantharos vase. Beotian geometric art. Origin unknown.
The inscription says: “Which now of all the dancers dances most charmingly, to him this…”.
Men with raised arms in a line dance.
735 B.C., approx.
Dated 750-690 BC. Two of the figures hold branches. Between them are two lyres and a scorpion. Found in a sanctuary of Apollo at Amyklai, Sparta.
Attic Geometric oenochoe vase bearing incision mentioning dance.
735 B.C., approx.
The inscription says: “Which now of all the dancers dances most charmingly, to him this…”.
Geometric kantharos from the sanctuary of Heracles in Thebes depicting men dancing
Painting on pottery, kantharos vase
725 BC approx.
Ancient, Greece, Boeotia
Dancing, palm-bearing women
Painting on pottery, red-figure vase
720 BC approx.
Ancient, Greece
Terracota figurine with women dancing.
715 B.C., approx.
From Boeotia.
Four men with swords hanging from belts and nine women dance to the music of musician playing the phorminx.
715 B.C., approx.
There is also a lyre-player and two men with swords and two men with chelys, an earlier type of lyre. Four women appear to be watching the dance.
Dancing women. 715 B.C., approx.