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GEOMETRIC POTTERY

GEOMETRIC POTTERY. Greek Pottery 1050-700 BC. Geometric Pottery.

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GEOMETRIC POTTERY

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  1. GEOMETRIC POTTERY Greek Pottery 1050-700 BC

  2. Geometric Pottery • Enduring Understanding: Though the Greek civilization experienced a Dark Age from 1150-750 BC, archaeologically, they produced quite a lot of material. It is evident that the Greek civilization continued to advance even through this Dark Age.

  3. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • History: • Between 1200-1000 BC, most pottery was influenced by the Dorians,a simple group of people from Europe who took over Greece. Their forms of pottery were simple, uneven shapes. • By 1050 BC, a new style began to develop. It is called Geometric style. But the earliest stage of this new style of pottery was called Proto-Geometric (1000-900 BC).

  4. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Different Types of Pottery: USAGE • KRATER: Large Mixing container for water with Wine KYLIX: shallow, circular, 2 handled drinking cup on narrow stem HYDRIA: large 3 handled jar for carrying water. One handle for pouring, 2 for lifting. OINOCHOE: small pitcher used for pouring wine into cups

  5. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Different Types of Pottery: USAGE AMPHORA: tall, 2 handled storage jar for oil, wine, dry goods such as grain.

  6. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • DORIAN POTTERY: Crude in design and uneven in terms of symmetry

  7. Periods of Geometric Pottery • Proto-Geometric Period: 1050-900 BC • Early Geometric Period: 900-850 BC • Middle Geometric Period: 850-800 BC • Late Geometric Period: 800-700 BC

  8. Periods of Geometric Pottery More complexity over time Late Geometric 800-700 Middle Geometric 850-800 Early Geometric 900-850 Proto-Geometric 1050-900 BC

  9. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • History • Proto-Geometric Period: • 1050-900 BC • Made on a wheel • Decoration on pots: black bands, wavy lines, simple geometric shapes. • Principally concentric circles and half circles. • Careful attention was given to relationship between decoration and shape of pot. • Signaled a reawakening of technical proficiency in Greece

  10. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • PROTO-GEOMETRIC STYLE: 1050-900 BC Proto-Geometric neck handled amphora Proto-Geometric belly-handled amphora Neck handle Half circles Belly Handle Wavy Lines Simple bands

  11. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • PROTO-GEOMETRIC STYLE: • Notice: dark colors painted on lighter body. Proto-Geometric neck handled amphora Proto-Geometric belly handled amphora

  12. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Period: • 900-700 BC • Increasing variety of design on pots • More coverage on pot. Lots of lines and patterns. • Complexity of design increases: simple figures of animals then later, humans appear. • Bodies and limbs represented by triangles. • Some patterns recall those on baskets, clothes, a “weave pattern”.

  13. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Period: • Black painted over a lighter body. • Depictions of humans and animals are conceptual rather than representational. • Human figures reduced to geometric shapes. • Upper bodies are triangles. • Rest of body in profile. • Subject matter: battle scenes or funeral scenes.

  14. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Period: • Large amphora with handles attached to neck were also used for the cremated remains of men and boys. • Large jars, Kraters, with handles attached to belly could also be used for the cremated remains of women and girls. • Shapes: zig-zag, cross-hatched, triangles, the meander and swastika. • General rule: size of figure denotes its importance. • Some Kraters served as grave monuments. Holes at the bottom allowed the liquid poured in to seep into the ground for the dead.

  15. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Early Geometric Style: 900-850 BC Different shapes Early Geometric Grave group 900-850 BC

  16. Early Geometric 900-850 BC

  17. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Middle Geometric Style: 850-800 BC MG Belly handled Amphora (850-800 BC MG Horse handled Pyxis Notice the growth and variety of shapes

  18. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Style: Late Geometric 800-700 BC. Diplyon amphora/grave marker 760-750 BC Diplyon Krater/grave marker 750-740 BC Triangular human figures Funeral scene Battle scene

  19. GEOMTETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Style: Late Geometric 800-700 BC Detail of Figures from pots

  20. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric Style: Late Geometric 800-700 BC. Detail of figures from pots

  21. GEOMETRIC POTTERY • Geometric pottery with its shapes and depictions of humans and animals is one step toward a more realistic view of life.

  22. Periods of Geometric Pottery More complexity over time Which periods are these pots from?

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