#marine style octupus jar

Marine style octopus jar, Palikastro (Crete), Greece. 1500 BCE. Minoan.

• 11" high
• pottery a hallmark of prehistoric art
• minoans responsibile for creating the potter’s wheel. allows for greater height, thinness, and gracefulness of form.
• last purely minoan style known
• marine style - dark figure on light round vessel. two toned and perfect combination of form and function. 
• horror vacui - the fear of open space. very crowded with design elements.