Greek Pottery Ornaments

Illustration

by Ori Keren
published on 04 July 2013

Greek Pottery Ornaments — Ten of the most common decorative ornaments used in ancient Greek pottery. These were used principally on the outer edges of the pottery wares and also on the neck, foot and around handles.

License & Copyright

Original image by Ori Keren. Uploaded by Mark Cartwright, published on 04 July 2013. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

Related Images

Image

Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter

Greek, about 540-530 BC Made in Athens, Greece; found at Vulci...

Image

Nike

Red figure Greek ceramic phiale or tray depicting Nike with chariot...

Cite This Work

APA Style

Keren, O. (2013, July 04). Greek Pottery Ornaments. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/1348/greek-pottery-ornaments/

Chicago Style

Keren, Ori. "Greek Pottery Ornaments." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified July 04, 2013. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/1348/greek-pottery-ornaments/.

MLA Style

Keren, Ori. "Greek Pottery Ornaments." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 04 Jul 2013. Web. 19 Apr 2024.