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Greek pottery, unlike today's pottery, was only fired once, using a very sophisticated process. [23] The black color effect was achieved by means of changing the amount of oxygen present during firing. This was done in a process known as three-phase firing involving alternating oxidizing –reducing conditions.
On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus Ancient Greek ostraca voting for the ostracization of Themistocles in 482 BC. An ostracon (Greek: ὄστρακον ostrakon, plural ὄστρακα ostraka) is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.
Silver kylix with Helen and Hermes, c. 420 BC. In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (/ ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k s / KY-liks, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k s / KIL-iks; Ancient Greek: κύλιξ, pl. κύλικες; also spelled cylix; pl.: kylikes / ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k iː z / KY-lih-keez, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k iː z / KIL-ih-keez) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.
Kerameikos (Greek: Κεραμεικός, pronounced [ce.ɾa.miˈkos]) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.
The Ancient Greeks had many forms of kraters, not just the Dipylon kraters. One form of kraters was the calyx krater; one of the largest kraters used to carry wine. This krater was meant to be used for wine because its calyx flower bottom was big enough to fit a psykter-shaped vase. [ 2 ]
White-ground technique is a style of white ancient Greek pottery and the painting in which figures appear on a white background. It developed in the region of Attica , dated to about 500 BC. It was especially associated with vases made for ritual and funerary use, if only because the painted surface was more fragile than in the other main ...
The Protogeometric style (or Proto-Geometric) is a style of Ancient Greek pottery led by Athens and produced, in Attica and Central Greece, between roughly 1025 and 900 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during the Greek Dark Ages. [4] It was succeeded by the Early Geometric period. Earlier studies considered the beginning of this style around 1050 BCE. [5] [6]
In 1863, archaeologists first started housing pottery and other artifacts found in the dig site in a small, makeshift outpost. It was an exhibit for the larger German Archaeological Institute until the official Museum was built in 1937, by H. Johannes. It was funded by Gustav Oberlander, a Prussian entrepreneur.