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The first stage in making a pot is to dig the clay out of the ground. Pieces of grit or plant matter must be removed before the clay can be used. This was done in ancient times, as it is today...

New-Palace period (1500-1450 BCE) Cretan Clay askos with 'Marine Style' decoration, (Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete)

Human representation is a dominant and varied theme in later Nazca pottery. Men and women in stiff poses are shown individually and in groups. These tall sculpted vases offer interesting detail relating to ornate Nazca...

A red-figure kalyx-krater depicting the sun god Helios. The stars are represented by young male children descending into the ocean. Attica, c. 430 BCE. (British Museum, London)

A black pottery vessel produced by the Longshan culture of north-east China, 2nd millennium BCE. Height: 14 cm. (British Museum, London)

Red-figure case painting depicting an "Amazonomachy," a battle between between Greeks and Amazon warriors. Attributed to the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs. Made in Attica, c. 450 BCE. Height: 63.5 cm (25 in). (Metropolitan...

Selene and her horses on an Attic kylix attributed to the Brygos Painter, c. 490 BCE. Antikensammlung, Berlin.

Human representation is a dominant and varied theme in later Nazca pottery. Men and women in stiff poses are shown individually and in groups. These tall sculpted vases offer interesting detail relating to ornate...

Egyptian calcite vessel in the form of a pregnant woman. Its handle represents a child holding the woman's hair. 18th Dynasty, about 1479-1352 BCE. Found in Tomb 949, Abydos, Egypt. The British Museum...

An oinophoros from Knidos, Greece depicting Hermes. 2nd century CE. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)