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Though Harpalus, Alexander's successor at Babylon, grew some Greek plants in the royal palace and walks, [20] mainland Greece, mother of democracy and Western cultural traditions, was not the mother of European gardens: the great Hellenistic garden was that of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Alexandria, a grand, walled paradise landscape that included ...
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 ...
The name derived from Corinthian boxes made of wood from the tree puksos ("boxwood"). [3] During the Classical period , the Attic word " kylichnis " was also used to refer to the same shape. [ 3 ] The shape of the vessel can be traced in pottery back to the Protogeometric period in Athens, however the Athenian pyxis has various shapes itself.
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 ...
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
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."
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The hydria (Greek: ὑδρία; pl.: hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). [1] The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped on a hydria itself, its direct translation meaning 'jug'.