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Color transcript of the wedding-procession.
It took place by torchlight, and brought the bride from her
father's to her husband's home. On this vase, the bride's
mother leads the procession, holding torches in her hands;
the bride and groom ride in a mule-drawn cart together with
the groomsman, and the bride grasps her veil in the gesture
called anakalypteria ("unveiling"), which was the
focus of a wedding-ceremony of the same name. The groom's
mother stands in the doorway of the couple's new home,
holding a torch in one hand and raising the other in a
gesture of greeting. Another mule-cart follows, with four
men seated in it, and other men and women walk
alongside--all of them, presumably,
wedding-guests.
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