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The first distinctive Greek pottery style first appeared around 1000 BCE or perhaps even earlier. Reminiscent in technique of the earlier Greek civilizations of Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland, early Greek pottery decoration employed simple shapes, sparingly used.
Ancient and Byzantine Art. Gallery 151. This refined Athenian stamnos was used to hold and mix wine. Also valued for its beauty, this red-figure vessel (so called because the figures remain the natural color of the clay) portrays maenads, women participants in rites celebrating Dionysos, the god of wine.ith refined designs that are gracefully adapted to its shape, this stamnos embodies the finest achievements of red-figure pottery. â Entry, Essential Guide, 2013, p. 70. The shapes of these vases indicate they had specific purposes.