Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 340
ous. The in-vention of the potters wheel is of great antiquity, and wasascribed by the Greeks in diflerent places to different mythicalpersons. The Corinthians named Hyperbion as its inventor. Inthe Kerameikos, the potters quarter of Athens, Keramos, theson of Dionysos and Ariadne, was worshiped as… … 3l8 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. tory of Kolias), ^^gina, Lakedsemon, Aiilis, Tenedos, Samos andKnidos were famous for their earthenware. In these places themanufacture of painted earthenware was concentrated; thence they^vere exported to the ports of the Mediterranean and the BlackSea for the markets of the…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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