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| # | The best Greek pottery came from Athens and Corinth where a high-quality clay was used which fired to a beautiful reddish-brown colour. Much of this pottery | painted with wonderful pictures | has survived from antiquity. Athenian potters lived in a quarter of the city called the 'Kerameikos'. They produced much pottery | using a potter's wheel | both for export and for the domestic market. |
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| 1 | The styles of pottery and vase painting are divided into various categories. Geometric patterns were popular from 1000 to 700 BC. Oriental motifs then came into fashion | notably at Corinth. Black-figure vases produced at Athens became especially popular in the 6th century BC. These featured black silhouette figures on a reddish background. After 520 BC | however | the red-figure technique took over | in which the colours were reversed - red figures on a black background. This black-figure vase depicts a scene from the mythical life of Hercules. |