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GREEK POTTERY
Colleen Oliver & Jaquana Daise
2/7/2012
Pottery of Ancient Greek
Pottery played a big role in ancient Greek because the Greeks did not have anything else to put food and water in. Greeks used a lekythos, a type of pottery were used for holding oil and unguents. They were used during Religious
Greek painted pottery changed a good deal over time from the Stone Age to the Hellenistic (330~30B.C.E.) period. Lekythos were used for a lot of things to help the Greeks with there everyday life. Pottery containers decorated on the outside are common in the ancient world.
The cylindrical are usually decorated with polychrome on a white ground fragment. Having a body a narrow neck with a deep mouth and one handle. The handle reaches from the shoulder to just below the neck. Very few Greek painted pictures have survived the 2500 years since they were painted.
The pottery of ancient Greece is one of the most tangible and iconic elements of ancient Greek art. The colorful vases and pots of the ancient Greeks. Ancient Greeks made pottery for everyday use. The trophies won at games such as Panathenaic amphorae (used for storage) are the exception.
Greek pottery, unlike today’s pottery, was only fired once, but only the firing. After the pottery is stacked inside the kiln our pottery can start the first stage. He heats up the kiln up to around 800°C with all the vents on the side open to let air in. This turns the pottery and the paint all over. One the kiln reaches 800°C the vents are closed and raised up to 950°C and then allowed to drop back to 900°C .
What we learned about pottery is that pottery is made from clay and some pottery mostly was painted red and black. Now we know lekythos were used for holding oil. Also we know the time period of when pottery was first created 330~30 B.C.E. The sweet Briar lekythos has a round base painted with black and brown colors.
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