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  2. Panathenaic amphora - Wikipedia

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    The vases were commissioned by the state from the leading pottery workshops of the day in large numbers. Their canonical shape was set by 530 BC, but the earliest known example is the Burgon vase (British Museum, B130), which depicts Athena's owl nestling on the neck of the vase and on the reverse is a synoris team. This may mean that the vase ...

  3. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    A Handbook of Greek Vase Painting. Sparks, NV: Falcon Hill Press, 1995. Mitchell, Alexandre G. Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Noble, Joseph Veach. The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1965. Oakley, John Howard. The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller ...

  4. Panathenaic Games - Wikipedia

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    Greek vase depicting runners at the Panathenaic Games c. 530 BC. The Panathenaic Games (Ancient Greek: Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC [1] to the 3rd century AD. [2]

  5. Two plundered ancient Greek vases are repatriated from ... - AOL

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    Two plundered marble vases that marked ancient Athenians' graves more than 2,000 years ago, including one with an emotional family scene, have been returned to Greece from Switzerland. Greece's ...

  6. Aineta aryballos - Wikipedia

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    The vase was made in the city of Corinth, in southern Greece. [13] On the basis of its decoration, Rhousopoulos dated the vase to the 30th Olympiad (660–656 BCE), which would have made the Aineta aryballos the oldest-known inscribed Corinthian vase, [ 14 ] and place it in the ceramic period known as Middle Protocorinthian II. [ 15 ]

  7. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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    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 ancient nomenclature was quickly disputed by Gerhard and Letronne.

  8. Pistoxenos Painter - Wikipedia

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    The Pistoxenos Painter was an important ancient Greek vase painter of the Classical period. He was active in Athens between c. 480 and 460 BC. Many vases have been attributed to his hand on the basis of style. Aphrodite riding a goose, white-ground bowl, circa 480 BC. Found at Kameiros , now British Museum.

  9. Askos (pottery vessel) - Wikipedia

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    An unusually large askos at the Louvre. Etruscan askos in the form of a rooster, 4th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Askos (Ancient Greek á¼€σκÏŒς "tube"; plural: á¼€σκοί - askoi) is the name given in modern terminology to a type of ancient Greek pottery vessel [1] used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil.

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