Here are some of the basic types of greek pottery vases jugs and other vessels.
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In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.
Pottery containers decorated on the outside are common in the ancient world.
The greeks athenian potters in particular standardized certain styles perfected their techniques and painting styles and sold their wares throughout the mediterranean.
Greek pottery was invariably made on the potter s wheel and usually made in separate horizontal sections.
The foot the lower and upper body the neck and finally the handles if necessary.
μαίανδρος is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line shaped into a repeated motif such a design is also called the greek fret or greek key design although these are modern designations.
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A meander or meandros greek.
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These sections were then joined together with a clay slip after drying and it is possible in many cases to see the prints of the potter impressed on the inside of the vessel.
On the one hand the name meander recalls the twisting and turning path of the maeander river in asia minor and on the other hand as karl kerenyi.
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Ancient greek pottery due to its relative durability comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient greece and since there is so much of it over 100 000 painted vases are recorded in the corpus vasorum antiquorum it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of greek society the shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium bc are.
Amphorae one of the most common forms in greek pottery various shapes always with two vertical neck handles and used for storing and transporting oil wine and foodstuffs such as olives often with a lid but these have rarely survived.