Dark Age Greek pottery
Dark Age Greek pottery: a Sub-Mycenaean octopus jar The end of the Bronze Age With the collapse of Mycenaean civilization around 1200 BC, Mycenaean pottery also went downhill. Minoan and [...]
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Greek pottery in the stone age
Stone Age Greek pottery: Rainbow Ware, ca. 6500 BC Rainbow ware Around the time that people in Greece settled down in houses and villages, and began planting their own crops [...]
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Red figure pottery in ancient Greece
Red figure vase from Athens, showing Herakles wrestling Antaeus Problems with black figure Around 530 BC, Athenian potters were more and more frustrated by the black-figure way of vase-painting. (More about [...]
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Minoan and Mycenaean Pottery
Kamares ware (Crete, ca. 2000 BC) While the Mycenaean Greeks were making the gray Minyan Ware, the Minoans on the island of Crete were producing vividly colored pots with black [...]
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Ancient Greek pottery
Greek pottery: A vase from Neolithic Sesklo, in Greece (5000 BC) Very few Greek painted pictures have survived the 2500 years since they were painted. So most of what we [...]
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Greek Geometric Pottery
Dipylon Vase (Geometric pottery), a grave marker from Athens. This vase is about six feet tall! Archaic period pottery Gradually the Sub-Mycenaean pottery of the Greek Dark Ages developed into [...]
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Who was Exekias? Black figure vase painting
Black-figure amphora by Exekias showing Achilles and Ajax playing checkers A famous vase painter One of the most famous Greek black-figure vase painters was called Exekias (ex-EEK-ee-us). Exekias was from [...]
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What is Minyan Ware? Early Bronze Age
A depas cup in Minyan ware A new kind of pottery The Yamnaya, or Indo-European Greeks, arrived in Greece around 2100 BC and defeated the people who were already living [...]
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Firing Black figure pottery
Exekias: Dionysos turning a ship into vines (Athens, ca. 530 BC) When your pot is dry, you fire it in a kiln. First you give it a lot of air, [...]
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Greek Black Figure pottery – Art in Ancient Greece
Black figure amphora by Exekias showing Achilles and Ajax playing checkers What does "black figure" mean? In Athens, in the Archaic period, potters kept right on making clay pots with [...]
