Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C.This volume reports on Athenian pottery found in the Athenian Agora up to 1960 that can be dated from about the middle of the 8th century B.C., when the appearance of a painter of sufficient personal distinction to enliven the whole craft marks a real break from the earlier Geometric style, through the third quarter of the 7th century B.C. when Protoattic gives way to black-figure and black wares. A sampling of contemporary imported ware is included. The material is treated first by shape and then, more extensively, by painting styles. Some 650 characteristic pieces are selected for cataloguing. The introduction discusses the development of the various shapes and styles, characterizing the special techniques and innovations of the period. The topographical features of the Agora that are indicated by the places of discovery of deposits of late Geometric and Protoattic pottery are summarized under wells, houses, workshops, sanctuaries, cemeteries, and roads. |
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Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Mid 8th to Late 7th Century B.C. Eva T. H. Brann No preview available - 1962 |
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7th century B.C. Agora Aigina Analatos Painter aryballos Athens Attic band handle birds black-figure body bottom Brann F broad band Brown glaze Brownish black glaze Burr closed pot cooking ware Corinthian CVA Berlin Cycladic Davison decoration diam Dipylon Dipylon Master disk foot dotted Early Protoattic Eleusis flaring fragment of amphora Fragment of closed Fragment of krater Geometric Workshops Glazed inside Grave handle attached hatched Hesperia horse hydria incised kantharos Kerameikos kotyle krater Kübler Kynosarges Last quarter Late 8th century Late Geometric Late Protoattic maeander Mesogeia Middle Geometric Middle Protoattic Mycenaean Neck fragment oinochoai oinochoe ornament outline painting palmette panel pithos Polyphemos pottery Proto Protocorinthian pyxis Ram Jug Painter Red glaze ring foot rolled handle Second quarter shape shoulder skyphos solid glaze sphinx spirals style Subgeometric Third quarter triangles vertical Votive Deposit wavy line worn XXXV zigzags zone
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Page xiv - Pottery from a Seventh Century Well,' Hesperia, VII, 1938, pp. 412—428