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Most Greek vases were wheel-made, though as with the Rhyton mould-made pieces (so-called "plastic" pieces) are also found and decorative elements either hand-formed or by mould were added to thrown pots. More complex pieces were made in parts then assembled when it was leather hard by means of joining with a slip, where the potter returned to ...
Archaeologists have not identified planted courtyards within the palaces of Mycenean culture nor in Greek houses of the Classical period. When the editors of a symposium on Roman gardens [10] included a contribution on the expected Greek precursors, Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's article prompted a reviewer [11] to observe, "For all practical purposes there appear to have been no gardens of any ...
The task of naming Greek vase shapes is by no means a straightforward one. The endeavour by archaeologists to match vase forms with those names that have come down to us from Greek literature began with Theodor Panofka ’s 1829 book Recherches sur les veritables noms des vases grecs , whose confident assertion that he had rediscovered the ...
Fresco paintings became an influence on the pictures painted on the pottery. Most of these images depict the warlike attitude of the Mycenae; as well, animals became a common feature painted on the pottery. Through the excavation of tombs in Greece, archaeologists believe that much of the pottery found belongs to the upper class. Pottery was ...
Dipylon Kraters are Geometric period Greek terracotta funerary vases found at the Dipylon cemetery; near the Dipylon Gate, in Kerameikos.Kerameikos is known as the ancient potters quarter on the northwest side of the ancient city of Athens and translates to "the city of clay."
Elements in this vocabulary include the geometrical meander or "Greek key", egg-and-dart, bead and reel, Vitruvian scroll, guilloche, and from the plant world the stylized acanthus leaves, volute, palmette and half-palmette, plant scrolls of various kinds, rosette, lotus flower, and papyrus flower.
This category includes the endemic and native plants of Greece. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes Crete and the eastern Aegean Islands of the Dodecanese, Antipsara, Chios, Lesbos and Psara. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic
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