Greek Art

Used as funerary makers over burials holes in its vase allowed mourners to pour liquid offerings during funerary rituals. late geometric belly handled amphora. 8th century Athens

Shows the homeric heros playing dice . 2figures lean on their spears creating a rhytimical compostion first know represtantion of a gaming scene

Square tablet above the echinus

In architecture, an ornament is carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves

A row of stone blocks directily supporting the collums

forms the topmost member of a column (or pilaster). It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening the area of the column's supporting surface.

Is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head

is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture,

Support beams orarches on which the upper parts of walls or ceilings rest.

Flaring cushion like capital under the abacus

Horizontal elements that rest on the colums

Sweeling effect gives impression collumns bulge

Lines on columns

a classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure (entablature), typically supported bycolumns

Made up of alterntaing triple grooved trigylphs and sculted metopes