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Greek psykter depicting reveling satyrs Silhouettes of fourteen types of ancient Greek Attic pottery are displayed, each with distinct shapes, including kraters, amphorae, hydria, kylix, and other vessel forms, labeled with letters for identification. geometric-style krater with funeral scenes terra-cotta oinochoe Proto-Corinthian aryballos Exekias: Greek amphora depicting Achilles slaying Penthesilea Detail from the Brygos Cup by the Brygos Painter, showing ancient Greek warriors in battle during the Sack of Troy, with figures in armor and shields on a black and red pottery surface. Greek kylix depicting Dionysus in a sailboat
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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
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Greek psykter depicting reveling satyrs
Greek psykter depicting reveling satyrs Reveling satyrs, Attic red-figure psykter (wine cooler) signed by Douris, c. 480 bce; in the British Museum, London.

Greek pottery

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Greek pottery, the pottery of the ancient Greeks, important both for the intrinsic beauty of its forms and decoration and for the light it sheds on the development of Greek pictorial art. Because fired clay pottery is highly durable—and few or no Greek works in wood, textile, or wall painting have survived—the painted decoration of this pottery has become the main source of information about the process whereby Greek artists gradually solved the many problems...

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