Handmade Amphora

Handmade amphora vase.

They are handmade ceramics museum copies.Also colour painted with the same style,that used in ancient Greece.The handpainted pictures,represent gods and heroes of mythology.Something that did also in ancient Greece, because they wanted to include in every day’s life, and to honor with this, the gods who worshiped and asked for their help in every need.They are made with the same pottery techniques, that used in ancient Greece.

But through ancient greek ceramic art, we will go through the stage of the simple daily vessels, to some which had special purpose.These were manufactured elaborately with great angiographies, making them so important pieces of worlds history.A trip that will start from 1100bc, the Progeometrical period, and reach to the prevalence of black-figured and reddish rate, up to 330 bc.

The materrials

The clay (keramos)to produce pottery(keramikos-ceramic),was readily available throughout greece.The finest was the attic clay,with its high iron content.giving an orange red colour with a slight sheen,when fired.And also the pale buff Corrinthian clay.Clay was generally prepared and refined in settling tanks,so that different consistencies of material could be achieved.Depending on the vessel types to be made with it.Although Greek pottery provided us a wide range of shapes,from cup to plates, to massive artifacts like amphoras,many of the forms remained relatively constant over centuries.

The most common forms of pottery were the amphora,for storing wine.Large kraters for mixing wine with water,jugs(oinocho’oi)for pouring wine.Kylixes or stemmed cups with orizontal handles for drinking.Hydria with three handles for holding water,skyphoi were something like a deep bowl.And lekythoi were jurs for holding oils and perfumes.

One of the most famous, is also that, of our photograph. the famous amphora.The amphora means a vase with oval body, with vertical handle on each side. It was used for the storage of wine, and sometimes oliveoil.The handmade amphora was invented in ancient Greece and adopted by the romans, as the main mean of transportation and storage of wine, olives, and oliveoil.From the ancient greek ceramics, we draw a lot of information about the life of the ancient greeks.Their religion and their relationship with everyone.