Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 330
us. The in-vention of the potters wheel is of great antiquity, and wasascribed by the Greeks in difterent places to different mythicalpersons. The Corinthians named H3^perbion as its inventor. Inthe Kerameikos, the potters quarter of Athens, Keramos, theson of Dionysos and Ariadne, was worshiped as… … 3l8 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. torv of Kolias), ^gina, Lakedaemon, Aulis, Tenedos, Samos andKnidos were famous for their earthenware. In these places themanufacture of painted earthenware was concentrated; thence theywere exported to the ports of the Mediterranean and the BlackSea for the markets of the…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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