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2. Ancient Greek funerary vases - Wikipedia

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   Every-day vases were often not painted, but wealthy Greeks could afford luxuriously painted ones. Funerary vases on male graves might have themes of military prowess, or athletics. However, allusions to death in Greek tragedies was a popular motif. Famous centers of vase styles include Corinth, Lakonia, Ionia, South Italy, and Athens. [1]

3. Typology of Greek vase shapes - Wikipedia

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   vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics, including the large lekythos, and the small aryballos, alabastron, and askos. In addition, various standard types might be used as external grave-markers (in extra-large versions, sometimes in stone), funerary urns containing ashes, or as grave goods.

4. Dipylon Amphora - Wikipedia

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   The Dipylon Amphora (also known as Athens 804) is a large Ancient Greek painted vase, made around 760–750 BC, and is now held by the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Discovered at the Dipylon cemetery, this stylistic vessel belonging to the Geometric period is credited to an unknown artist: the Dipylon Master.

5. Dipylon Krater - Wikipedia

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   This process meant that each vase made was distinctive from the other vases. Then, before being placed in the kiln, the vase was to be decorated to be fired multiple times. These vases were very important to Kerameikos that the potter who worked on Dipylon kraters was called a Dipylon Master. Not only did the Dipylon Master specialize in the ...

6. Urn - Wikipedia

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   Urns are a common form of architectural detail and garden ornament. Well-known ornamental urns include the Waterloo Vase. A tea urn is a heated metal container traditionally used to brew tea or boil water in large quantities in factories, canteens or churches. They are not usually found in domestic use.

7. Pottery of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   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), [1] it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded ...