Transcript geometric pottery

GEOMETRIC POTTERY
Greek Pottery
1050-700 BC
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.
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).
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• Different Types of Pottery: USAGE
–KRATER: Large Mixing container
for water with Wine
HYDRIA: large 3 handled jar for
carrying water. One handle for
pouring, 2 for lifting.
KYLIX: shallow, circular, 2
handled drinking cup on
narrow stem
OINOCHOE: small
pitcher used for
pouring wine into
cups
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• Different Types of
Pottery: USAGE
AMPHORA: tall, 2 handled storage jar
for oil, wine, dry goods such as grain.
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• DORIAN POTTERY:
Crude in design and uneven in terms of symmetry
Periods of Geometric Pottery
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Proto-Geometric Period: 1050-900 BC
Early Geometric Period: 900-850 BC
Middle Geometric Period: 850-800 BC
Late Geometric Period: 800-700 BC
Periods of Geometric Pottery
Late
Geometric
800-700
Middle Geometric
850-800
Early Geometric 900-850
Proto-Geometric 1050-900 BC
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
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
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• PROTO-GEOMETRIC STYLE:
– Notice: dark colors painted on lighter body.
Proto-Geometric neck
handled amphora
Proto-Geometric belly handled amphora
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”.
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.
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.
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• Early Geometric
Style: 900-850 BC
Different shapes
Early Geometric Grave group 900-850 BC
Early Geometric
900-850 BC
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
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
GEOMTETRIC POTTERY
• Geometric Style: Late Geometric 800-700 BC
Detail of Figures from pots
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• Geometric Style: Late Geometric 800-700 BC.
Detail of figures from pots
GEOMETRIC POTTERY
• Geometric pottery with its
shapes and depictions of
humans and animals is one
step toward a more realistic
view of life.
Periods of Geometric Pottery
Which periods are these
pots from?