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J. Paul Getty Museum: Red Figured Gela Krater
Superb example of red-figured vase depicting a favorite subject of Greek artists, a battle scene.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Gulf of Mexico Program: Woodland Cultures (2000 Bc to 1,000 Bc)
This site presents information on the three periods of Woodland Culture. It briefly describes how the Woodland culture began as small villages depending on subsistence farming and hunting. Also describes the move to the mound building...
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Eternal Egypt: Ibex Head From a Vase
The head of an ibex once decorated the shoulder of an elaborate pottery vase from the courts of King Amenhotep the Third. Painted pottery jars, decorated with fine paintings and innovative designs, were much in fashion.
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Chimayo Trading and Mercantile
Southwestern art and artists are featured at this Chimayo Trading and Mercantile site. "Paintings, Navajo rugs, Native American pottery, Kachinas, and Native American baskets" are all links found at the bottom of the page.
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Southwestern art and artists are featured at this Chimayo Trading and Mercantile site. "Paintings, Navajo rugs, Native American pottery, Kachinas, and Native American baskets" are all links found at the bottom of the page.
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Eternal Egypt: Small Jar
This small pottery jar has carved lines on the upper part of the body; it also has two small handles but is devoid of any other decorative elements.
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Eternal Egypt: Large Bowl
Large shallow pottery bowl containing bread and persea tree branches, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Ovoid Vase
Ovoid pottery vase, decorated with black, blue and red horizontal bands, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Black Small Plate
A pottery plate made of orange colored clay, it has a black glaze. This plate was one of the items used at the table during the Hellenistic era.
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Eternal Egypt: Jug With a Long Neck
Pottery jug with a long undulating neck, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Jug of Lagynos Style
A pottery lagynos, which is considered to be one of the containers that were sealed, such as jars, amphorae and oinochoi, which were used to preserve liquids and were all related to table service all through the Hellenistic period.
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Eternal Egypt: Group of Painted Vases
Funerary pottery was painted on one side to imitate floral arrangements that such vessels held during festivals. These oval examples have tall necks, two handles on each vase, and protruding lips.
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Eternal Egypt: Shawabti of Tutankhamun
The Shawabti, or funerary, figures were usually made of faience, wood, or pottery and were intended to perform work in the place of the deceased in the afterlife. This Shawabti of gilded wood is an image of the young king wearing the...
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Eternal Egypt: Large Four Handled Vase
Large four-handled pottery vase decorated on the neck and shoulder with floral motifs, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Marmalah for Drying Ink
The marmalah, made of pottery in the shape of a cylinder, is decorated with flowers.
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Eternal Egypt: Locally Produced Amphora
A locally produced amphora made of pottery; it has a wide mouth, and the neck is cylindrical and has fine parallel incisions. The handles are broad with double bands. The body is extended and has a small pointed base.
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Eternal Egypt: Hercules Fighting a Lion
The pottery piece is from the bottom of a patera, an ancient Roman shallow bowl without handles. It shows a scene of the Greek hero Hercules fighting the Nemean lion.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar Filter With Rhombuses
A jar filter, made of pottery, is meticulously made. It is not enameled but decorated with an incised and pierced ornament and colored yellowish green.
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Eternal Egypt: Large Plate With Latin Cross
The large plate, made on a pottery wheel, is painted and engraved with a large Latin cross and partial drawings of human beings.
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Traditional Crafts of Japan
Explore Japanese crafts like weaving, dyeing, pottery, porcelain and others by region of Japan or craft type. Each craft has extensive information and beautiful graphics. Bilingual English / Japanese (Japanese version has more content).
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Woman
A woman kneeling by a column, with several articles of pottery nearby.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Mound at Marathon
Near the southern extremity of the plain of Marathon rises a conical mound, 30 feet high. it covers the remains of the 192 Greeks who fell in the battle. Excavations undertaken in 1890-1891 disclosed ashes, human bones and fragments of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Franklin Medallion
Franklin was a celebrity in Paris even before his arrival in 1777, and medallions from the faience pottery at Chaumont (owned by Franklin's host, Donatien LeRay de Chaumont) were among the earliest portraits of him made in France.
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