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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]
During the Greek Dark Age, spanning the 11th to 8th centuries BC, the prevalent early style was that of the protogeometric art, predominantly using circular and wavy decorative patterns. This was succeeded in mainland Greece , the Aegean , Anatolia , and Italy by the style of pottery known as geometric art , which employed neat rows of ...
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC) ... The Protogeometric style of pottery was stylistically simpler than earlier designs, characterized by lines and curves.
Protegeometric pottery style is thought to have been led by Athens, while other regions also had their own local variations, most notably Thessaly, Euboea, Crete etc. [11] The Protogeometric period did not yet feature human figures within its art, but horses were pictured during this time period. [14]
Late Mycenaean or Sub-Mycenaean small stirrup jar Lekythos in Protogeometric style, Submycenaean Greece, c. 1050 BC Amphoriskos, Tiryns, c. 1025–900 BC. Submycenaean pottery is a style of Ancient Greek pottery that is transitional between the preceding Mycenaean pottery and the subsequent styles of Greek vase painting, particularly the Protogeometric style.
Category: Greek Dark Ages. 2 languages. ... Protogeometric style This page was last edited on 11 March 2020, at 11:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The first steles were dated from the Early Bronze Age, around 2000 B.C.The use of steles as grave markers gained popularity in Kerameikos around the Protogeometric period c.a. 950 B.C.E. until they fell out of style around the 8th century C.E. [3] The site was first excavated in 1870 by German archaeologists looking for grave-goods. [4]
Greek Dark Ages; P. Protogeometric style This page was last edited on 16 December 2020, at 00:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...