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Mycenaean pottery
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Mycenaean pottery is the pottery tradition associated with the Mycenaean period in Ancient Greece. It encompassed a variety of styles and forms including the stirrup jar. The term "Mycenaean" comes fr
A Mycenaean stirrup jar, hallmark of the olive oil trade in the Late Bronze Age. Furumark shape 46, type 171, Late Helladic IIIA or B, dated 1400 to 1
A Mycenaean stirrup jar, hallmark of the olive oil trade in the Late Bronze Age. Furumark shape 46, type 171, Late Helladic IIIA or B, dated 1400 to 1200 BC.
Archaeological Museum of Nafplion: pyriform jar from chamber tomb 10 of the Dendra cemetery (1500–1450 BC)
Archaeological Museum of Nafplion: pyriform jar from chamber tomb 10 of the Dendra cemetery (1500–1450 BC)
Anatomy of a typical Mycenaean vessel
Anatomy of a typical Mycenaean vessel
Different vessel functions
Different vessel functions
Pottery of ancient Greece
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Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide
Pottery of ancient Greece
Hellenistic Amphorae, stacked the way they were probably transported in antiquity, display in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Hellenistic Amphorae, stacked the way they were probably transported in antiquity, display in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Disjecta membra (a fragment of ancient Greek pottery)
Disjecta membra (a fragment of ancient Greek pottery)
Neoclassical "Black Basalt" Ware vase by Wedgwood, c. 1815 AD
Neoclassical "Black Basalt" Ware vase by Wedgwood, c. 1815 AD