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Jar for storing wine and oil. Egg shaped body and 2 curved handles

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Amphora

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A sacred or holy structure for worship

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Sanctuaries

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Wide mouthed pitcher

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Olpe

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Stylized flower forms

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Rosettes

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Black figures painted on red clay ground

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Black-figure technique

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Columned pavilion that’s open on 3 sides

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Stoa

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Collums carved in the form of clothed women on a pedestal with capitals on their heads

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Caryatids

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A platform or base supporting a structure or other monument

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Pedistal

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Horizontal elements above columns

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Entablature

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Plain or 3 panel architrave and a continuous frieze set off by richly carved moldings

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Ionic order

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Bottom element in entablature

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Architrave

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Middle element in entablature

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Frieze

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Triangular gable formed by enblature and ends of sloping roof or ranking cornice

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Pediment

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Sacred area reserved for worship

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Temenos

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Covered, open space in front of entrance

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Porches

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Arrangement, proportions, and appeared of colums and lintels

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Elevations

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Shaft sits directly on stylobate without a base, fluted with sharp edges, and necking is transition to capital. Consists of rounded echinus and tablet like abacus and roofline with acroteria

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Doric order

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Varient of Ionic order developed for interior use. Capitals were stylized and decorated with acanthus leaves extending from astragal

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Corinthian Order

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Principle interior room of a temple

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Cella

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Flat slab on top of capital that’s under the entablature

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Abacus

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Collum that swells in the middle and contract at the top and bottom

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Entasis

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Enclosed vestible

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Pronaos

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System of proportions in classical architexture

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Orders

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Architectural element used for support or decor

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Column

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Main vertical section of a column

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Shaft

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Sculpted block on top of collumn

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Capital

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Section of shaft

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Drum

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Floor of the temple

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Stylobate

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Set of steps that form the temple’s base

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Stereobate

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Channeled with sharp edges

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Fluted

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Cushion like circular element below abacus of Doric Capitol

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Echinus

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Rectangular block between metropes of Doric Frieze

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Triglyphs

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Carved or painted rectangular pannel between Triglyphs

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Metopes

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Topmost projecting horizontal element

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Cornice

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Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements

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Acroteria

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Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements

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Actroteria

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Flat surfaces separating flutes

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Fillets

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Continuous sculptured or decorated frieze

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Volute

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Stylized leaves

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Acanthus

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Convex band

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Astragal

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Clay fired over low heat

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Terracotta

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Statue of a woman

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Kore

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Male statue

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Kouros

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Conventional closed-liped convention

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Archaic smile

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Wine cup

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Kantharos

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Mixture of clay and water

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Slip

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Technique in which design or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument

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Incising

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Red figured on a black background

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Red-figure technique

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Kramer with handles curved up like petals

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Calyx Krater

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Social gathering of rich and powerful men

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Symposium

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Convention of presenting standing figures with opposing alternations of tension around a central axis

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Contrapposto

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Broad, flat cup

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Kylix

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Pot used as a wine cooler

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Psylter

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Circular painting

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Tondo

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Wine jug

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Oinochoe

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City on top of a hill

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Akropolis

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Process though artists strive to make forms and figures attain perfection, baser in pervading cultural values or personal ideals

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Idealization

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Marketplace

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Agora

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Raised platform

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Podium

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Grid plan

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Ortagonal

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Water jug

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Hydra

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Type of ancient Greek pottery in which the background is colored with a slip that turns white when fired

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White-ground

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Opaque water-based medium mixed with glue or egg white

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Tempura

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Slim pil vase with one handle and a narrow mouth

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Lekythai

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Image formed by arranging small colored stone or glass pieces and affixing them to a hard, stable surface

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Mosaic

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Small peices of stone or glass, or other objects that are pieced together to create a mosaic

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Tesserae

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Circular neck ring worn by Celtic warriors

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Tore

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All foreigners the Greeks considered uncivilized

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Barbarian

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Artistic styles in which aspects of works are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or to elicit an emotional response

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Expressionism

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