Visual Arts History 2247E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Amphora, Hydria, Kerameikos
27 Sep 2017
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Early iron age pottery protgeometric: full and half circles, zigzag etc. About 150 years of this style (1050-900) Social function of pots: hold ashes, wine, water, oil, etc. Male versus female (belly(f) vs neck9m) handles) Agora used as cemetery before marketplace childs burial. Embroidered cloth burnt with body(?) and buried with body. Similar artifacts to protogeometric era (cid:894)a(cid:373)phora, krater, hydria, oio(cid:374)choe, lekythos (cid:895) Men in neck amphora, women in belly amphora. Kantharos ritual drinking goblets, high vertical handles used by wealthy men and gods. Female cremation burial in athens around 850 on the edge of the agora. Lots of wealthy possessions : faience(coloured paste that is fired-glassy finish) and glass beaded necklace, carved ivory, gold earrings. Turkey, syria, lebanon, israel, egypt rich near eastern trade area. Decorated with two specialist techniques: filigree, granulation. Hanging from earring is a stylized pomegranate.
