Corinthian pottery

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Corinthian pottery is a distinctive style of ancient Greek ceramic ware known for its fine clay, intricate orientalizing decoration, and extensive use of animal and mythological friezes.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Corinthian pottery canonical 1
Corinthian workshops 1
Middle Corinthian 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek pottery style
ceramic ware
archaeologicalSignificance key chronological marker for the Orientalizing period
characteristicFeature animal friezes
dense surface ornament
mythological friezes
use of added purple and white
chronologyPhase Orientalizing period
surface form: Early Corinthian

Late Corinthian
Corinthian pottery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Middle Corinthian
commonShape alabastron
amphora
aryballos
krater
oinochoe
country Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
decorationStyle orientalizing decoration
developedIn Corinth
exportedTo Eastern Mediterranean
Etruria
Sicily
Southern Italy
floruit 7th century BCE
early 6th century BCE
followedBy Attic black-figure pottery
function perfume container
storage vessel
symposium vessel
influenced Attic black-figure pottery
influencedBy Egyptian motifs
Near Eastern art
lineQuality fine incision
material fine buff clay
motif birds
goats
griffins
lions
lotus and palmette chains
panthers
rosettes
sphinxes
namedAfter Corinth
paintingTechnique black-figure technique
precededBy Proto-Corinthian pottery
productionCenter Corinthian pottery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Corinthian workshops
region Peloponnese
surfaceColor light yellowish ground
timePeriod Orientalizing period

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Corinth artStyle Corinthian pottery
Corinthian pottery productionCenter Corinthian pottery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Corinthian workshops
Corinthian pottery chronologyPhase Corinthian pottery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Middle Corinthian