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The Chigi vase itself is a polychrome work decorated in four friezes of mythological and genre scenes and four bands of ornamentation; amongst these tableaux is the earliest representation of the hoplite phalanx formation – the sole pictorial evidence of its use in the mid- to late-7th century, [6] and terminus post quem of the "hoplite reform" that altered military tactics.
The Macmillan aryballos is a Protocorinthian pottery aryballos in the collection of the British Museum. Dating to around 640 BC, it is 6.9 cm high and 3.9 cm in diameter, and weighs 65 grams. Dating to around 640 BC, it is 6.9 cm high and 3.9 cm in diameter, and weighs 65 grams.
Aryballos in the form of three cockle shells, 6th century BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art). An aryballos (Greek: ἀρύβαλλος; plural aryballoi) was a small spherical or globular flask with a narrow neck used in Ancient Greece.
In Attic pottery, the distinctive Orientalizing style known as "proto-Attic" was marked by floral and animal motifs; it was the first time discernibly Greek religious and mythological themes were represented in vase painting. The bodies of men and animals were depicted in silhouette, though their heads were drawn in outline; women were drawn ...
The Aineta aryballos is made from yellowish clay. [3] It is a small vase, with a spherical body and a disc-shaped neck, connected by a handle. [4] The entire aryballos is approximately 6.35 centimetres (2.50 in) in height [1] and diameter.
The United Kingdom’s new monarch, King Charles III, brings to mind the last time our city went king crazy, Chicago. The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to ...
The black-figure technique was developed around 700 BC in Corinth [2] and used for the first time in the early 7th century BC by Proto-Corinthian pottery painters, who were still painting in the orientalizing style. The new technique was reminiscent of engraved metal pieces, with the more costly metal tableware being replaced by pottery vases ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...