Classical Archeology + Pottery Shapes

What is Classical Archaeology?

Classical archaeology is associated with the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome precisely because the classic period of history focuses on everything that historians have learned from the ancient Greeks, the Hellenistic period, The rise and fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Christianity.

Greek Pottery Shapes

Amphorae:

• belly-amphora
• Panathenaic Prize amphora
• Neck-amphora
• Pelike

Kraters

• Column-krater
• Volute-krater
• Calyx-Krater
• Bell-krater
• Psykter

Other vessels for carrying liquids:

• Lebes or Dinos
• Loutrophoros
• Hydria
• Stamnos
• Pouring vessels

Cups and other drinking vessels:

• Cups
• Skyphos, Mastos and Mastoid cup
• Kantharos
• Rhyton, head-vase and figure-vase
• Phiale

Small closed shapes:

• Aryballos
• Lekythos
• Alabastron
• Askos
• Pyxis and Exaleiptron (Jewellery purpos 

Other shapes:

• Plate
• Lekanis/Lekane
• Epinetron

Liquids:

wine:

• belly-amphora
• Panathenaic Prize amphora
• Neck-amphora
• Pelike
• Cups
• Skyphos, Mastos and Mastoid cup
• Kantharos
• Rhyton, head-vase and figure-vase
• Phiale

water:

• belly-amphora
• Panathenaic Prize amphora
• Neck-amphora
• Pelike
• Cups
• Skyphos, Mastos and Mastoid cup
• Kantharos
• Rhyton, head-vase and figure-vase
• Phiale

wine and water:

• Column-krater
• Volute-krater
• Calyx-Krater
• Bell-krater
• Psykter

oil:

• belly-amphora
• Panathenaic Prize amphora
• Neck-amphora
• Pelike
• Lebes or Dinos
• Loutrophoros
• Alabastron

perfume:

• Lebes or Dinos
• Loutrophoros
• Alabastron

 unguent:

• Hydria
• Stamnos
• Lekythos

Ezekias and Byrgos :

Ezekias

Exekias was an Athenian who popularized the practice of the black figure technique As seen from the pictures above, his characters are all black. 


Byrgos