Greek Vases

AN APULIAN RED-FIGURED LOUTROPHOROS

APULIA, CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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Nikosthenes Painter and (signed) Potter (fl. c. 550 - 510 BCE), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 00.334 (515-500 BCE; excavated at Tarquinia, Etruria, Italy). Red-figure kantharos. Side B top: Dionysus reclining with satyrs.

terracotta two-handled vase Canosa di Puglia Greek

Satyr Rhyton - Terracotta - Greece

.:. Exhibits from various eras, from the lovely-and tiny- archaeological museum of Kerameikos.

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Ancient pottery wine amphora found in the ruins on the Island of Delos, Greece The pottery decorations of ancient cultures were instrumental in preserving valuable historical details about daily life, cultural perceptions, myths and deeper spiritual beliefs. Even calendars and astrological events were recorded on pots. Historians would have been entirely clueless about the lifestyles of some past cultures without leads from these clay time-capsules. Symbols, rituals, language, cult...