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Alabastron (pl. alabastra) - a small jar for storing perfumes, named after the material (alabaster) the first examples were made from. They were often carried by a string looped around the neck of the vessel. Amphora...

Red-figure Pottery is a style of Greek vase painting invented in Athens c. 530 BCE. The style has drawn red figures and a painted black background. Red-Figure Pottery grew in popularity, and by the early 5th century BCE it had...

Ceramic Etruscan amphora in geometric style with cranes, attributed to the Crane painter. First quarter 7th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Milan)

The pottery of ancient Korea stretches back to prehistory when simple brown wares were made and decorated with geometrical incisions and ends with the production of the superb celadons and white porcelain of the Goryeo dynasty but...

The ever evolving pottery from the Minoan civilization of Bronze Age Crete (2000-1500 BCE) demonstrates, perhaps better than any other medium, not only the Minoan joy in animal, sea and plant life but also their delight in flowing...

This pitcher is decorated with linear motifs and horses in successive zones. Vases of this class were used as cinerary urns in Attic burials during the Late Geometric Period. Found in an Attic workshop. Late...

A geometric amphora with a battle scene including a chariot. 8th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Paros, Greece)

This clay tablet narrates a geometric-algebraic theory of angles and triangles, similar to to the theory of Euclid of Alexandria, the father of geometry (lived c. 300 BCE). From Tell Harmal (ancient...

This clay tablet narrates a geometric-algebraic theory of how to make a solution for a mathematical problem. The conclusion applies a theory very similar to the Pythagorean theorem. From Tell...

A geometric Cycladic vase. Stone, Naxos, 9th-8th century BCE. (Mykonos Archaeological Museum)