Greek Ceramic Vase

Greek Ceramic vase amphora.
They are handmade ceramics museum copies
also color painted with the same style,that used in Ancient Greece.

Ancient Greek pottery

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.This handmade amphora  is  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 vessels 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.And will grant us unique masterpieces,such as amphoras, lykithoi, ydreies, jugs , prochoys, cylics, beetle, wine amphoras, craters.

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.

Inscriptions of  greek handmade ceramic vase

Inscriptions on Greek pottery are of two kinds; the incised (the earliest of which are contemporary with the beginnings of the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC), and the painted, which only begin to appear a century later. Both forms are relatively common on painted vases until the Hellenistic period when the practice of inscribing pots seems to die out. They are by far most frequently found on Attic pottery.

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. The vessels had many uses, and that is why many variations and shapes have been found. They used them for storage, for weddings, and funerals and ceremonies,for 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 amphoras were invented in ancient greece and adopted by the romans. To be used as the main means of transportation and storage of wine, olives, and oliveoil.

This Greek handmade ceramic  vase of exceptional quality and attention to detail,is the perfect souvenir for every house.A small piece of Greek’s vast history and Mythology.