Greek Attic Vases

It developed in athens around 520 bc and remained in use until the late 3rd century bc.

Greek attic vases.

Attic trefoil cook class oinochoe. Its modern name is based on the figural depictions in red colour on a black background in contrast to the preceding. Many early greek vases were made to order to mark the death of a nobleman for example. Fine oil honey and vinegar.

Treatment of the vase in the 1980s provided the conservation field with significant insight into the history of the restoration of greek vases. Scientists study ancient greek pottery to improve spacecraft tiles. The small neck implies they were used for pouring liquids in a small quantity e g. Attic red figure lekythos mid 5th century bc 7 500.

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. Head of a female ca. We respectfully preserve the sensitivity and the dignity of ancient pieces while guaranteeing the quality and the accuracy of all the pieces we reproduce. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium bc are still the best guide available to understand the customary life and mind of the ancient greeks.

10 in 26 9 cm high. It replaced the previously dominant style of black figure vase painting within a few decades. Vases such as the white ground lekythos below would be buried with the deceased or perhaps used as a grave marker. Astragaloi a vessel shaped like a knucklebone from which it takes its name and which may have been used to store sheep knucklebones which were used as gaming pieces or dice.

Their pictorial decorations provide insights into many aspects of athenian life and complement the literary texts and inscriptions from the archaic. An attic outline white ground lekythos attributed to the dessypri painter circa 430 bc. Attic red figure lekythos in the manner of the carlsruhe painter ca. Attic small red figure lekythos ca.

The black figured attic meaning from athens region vessel was created around 540 bce by a well documented vase painter known as the affecter painter. Scientists from stanford s national accelerator laboratory have found that attic pottery remains chemically stable at very high temperatures. Attic small red figure lekythos mid 5th century bc 4 500. Red figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural greek vase painting.