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  2. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    A few surviving vases were labelled with their names in antiquity; these included a hydria depicted on the François Vase and a kylix that declares, “I am the decorated kylix of lovely Phito” (BM, B450). Vases in use are sometimes depicted in paintings on vases, which can help scholars interpret written descriptions.

  3. Hydria - Wikipedia

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    Once a short cylinder was formed, the clay was then angled outward to form the lip of the hydria. [7] The lip was rounded with a sponge and the neck, mouth and lip were cut off the wheel and left to harden. [7] Similar to the neck amphora, the neck walls of the hydria were also tapered, starting thicker at the base and becoming thinner towards ...

  4. Gudea cylinders - Wikipedia

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    The clay shells of the cylinders are approximately 2.5 to 3 cm thick. Both cylinders were cracked and in need of restoration and the Louvre still holds 12 cylinder fragments, some of which can be used to restore a section of cylinder B. [5] Cylinder A contains thirty columns and cylinder B twenty four. These columns are divided into between ...

  5. Black-figure pottery - Wikipedia

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    Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BC, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανÏŒμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.

  6. Burney Relief - Wikipedia

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    The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.

  7. Cong (vessel) - Wikipedia

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    The outer surface is divided vertically or horizontally such that the whole defines a hollow cylinder embedded in a partial rectangular block. Proportions vary: a cong may be squat or taller than it is wide. The outer faces are sometimes decorated with mask-like faces, which may be related to the taotie designs found on later bronze vessels.

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