Tag: Fish

• Greek Pottery: 6th-century eastern Greek faience fish-shaped aryballos (tilapia nilotica)

  

  Here’s a 6th-century eastern Greek oil flask shaped like a fish—allegedly a tilapia nilotica.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  9 January 2023

  Pottery

  Ancient Greeks, archaeology, aryballos, Egypt, faience, Fish, History, Pottery

• Greek Pottery: Another Fish Platter from Paestum

  

  Another 4th-Century fish platter from Paestum. (With a happy octopus!)

  Lucca Daniel Green

  5 January 2023

  Pottery

  Ancient Greeks, archaeology, Fish, History, Octopus, Pottery, vases

• Greek Pottery: 15th-Century Minoan ‘Marine Style’ at the Heraklion Museum

  

  An octopus in the ‘Marine Style’ attributed to a late-stage Minoan workshop + other examples of the genre.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  3 January 2023

  Pottery

  aesthetics, Ancient Greeks, coral, Fish, Minoans, Octopus, Pottery, vases

• Greek Pottery: Red-Figure Fish Platter, with Fish, Shrimp, Shells, and Two Octopi!

  

  A Fourth-Century Fish Plate from Paestum (Southern Italy) in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  2 January 2023

  Pottery

  Ancient Greeks, archaeology, Fish, History, Italy, Octopi, Pottery, vases