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Pottery of Ancient Greece!
From simple and beautiful geometric designs to elaborate scenes of people going about their daily lives: the thousands of pieces of pottery from ancient Greece are a great resource from which we can learn about this civilization and their culture!
Here is a great video that shows how one type of ancient Greek vase was made. Remember, there are many dozens of types of vases!
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?segid=373
For some background on ancient Greek Pottery, read this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_of_ancient_Greece
There are many galleries of ancient Greek pottery on the web -- here are a few:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=20
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/default.htm
http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/explore/exp_set.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery_of_ancient_Greece
Here are several links to help figure out what type of pottery you are looking at:
http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/explore/pot_shapes.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typology_of_Greek_vase_shapes
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~greekart/vase/s_menu_e.html