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Ancient Greek Pottery

Pictures of ancient pottery vases from Greece

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These photos of ancient Greek pottery show geometric period designs, as well as black figure and red figure. Many of the scenes depicted come from Greek mythology.

Ancient Greek Picture Gallery

Images 1-12 of 26

  1. Ivy Painter AmphoraAmphora from c. 530 B.C.; attributed to the Ivy Painter. At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
  2. Late Geometric AmphoraLarge late Geometric Attic amphora, c. 725 B.C. - 700 B.C. at the Louvre.
  3. Oinochoe - Black FigureAeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC.
  4. OinochoeLate Geometric Period Oinochoe With Battle Scene. 750-725 B.C.
  5. Olpe, by the Amasis Painter - Black FigureHeracles entering Olympus, olpe by the Amasis Painter, 550–530 B.C.
  6. Calyx-Krater - Red FigureDionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 400-375 B.C.
  7. Hercules Black FigureHercules leading a big headed four-legged monster, late black figure bowl
  8. Calyx-Krater - Red FigureTheseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, 460-450 B.C.
  9. Calyx-Krater - Red FigureCastor. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts.
  10. Calx-Krater - Red FigureHeracles and the gathering of the Argonauts
  11. Kylix - Red FigureTheseus Fighting the Crommyonian Sow
  12. Kylix Krater - Red FigureEos and Her Chariot. Red-figure krater from South Italy, from 430-420 B.C.

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