Greek Attic Pottery

Exekias amphora with ajax and achilles playing a game.

Greek attic pottery.

By looking closely at them you will be able to observe how shapes techniques and styles of decoration change. A new direction in greek pottery. Remembering there is always something earlier and change doesn t happen overnight this phase developed out of the proto geometric period of pottery with its compass drawn figures created from roughly 1050 873 b c. Clay was generally prepared and refined in settling tanks so that different consistencies of material.

Black figure style decoration c. Greek vases 800 300 bc. 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. In this period the surface of the pot was completely covered with a network of fine patterns in which circles and arcs predominate.

Ancient greek attic black figure pottery column kratzer 19 heavily restored. Periods of ancient greek pottery types of greek vases. The earliest stylistic period is the geometric lasting from about 1000 to 700 bce this period is further broken down into a proto geometric transition from mycenaean forms. The clay keramos to produce pottery kerameikos was readily available throughout greece although the finest was attic clay with its high iron content giving an orange red colour with a slight sheen when fired and the pale buff of corinth.

620 c 530 bce invented in corinth the style was adopted in attica to become the dominant style in greek pottery. Story book of greek mythology. The greeks athenian potters in particular standardized certain styles perfected their techniques and painting styles and sold their wares throughout the mediterranean. Greek late 8th century bc metropolitan museum of art.

Greek pottery developed from a mycenaean tradition borrowing both pot forms and decoration. A corinthian black figure alabastron heracles nemean lion art ca. Pottery containers decorated on the outside are common in the ancient world. From tomb to museum.

Exekias amphora with ajax and achilles playing a game. Exekias dionysos kylix. The story of the sarpedon krater. Black figure pottery painting also known as the black figure style or black figure ceramic greek μελανόμορφα melanomorpha is one of the styles of painting on antique greek vases it was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries bc although there are specimens dating as late as the 2nd century bc.

Figures were painted in black silhouette with details such as muscles and hair incised using a sharp instrument.