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What it tells us about the past: Centuries before runners lined up on the track to compete in the Olympic Games, athletes participated in the Panathenaic Games, an athletic festival held every four ...
Date: c. 700 B.C.E. Origin: Boeotia (central Greece) Description: Large jug with flat base, ovoid body, tall cylindrical neck, and horizontal mouth decorated with applied snakes. Two handles on either ...
The "Eleusis Amphora," dating to roughly 670–650 BC and containing the remains of a ten-year-old child, was no common storage ...
Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...