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Engraved gems in Asia Minor (Antiquity)
Author(s) : Plantzos Dimitris (2/25/2003)Translation : Koutras Nikolaos
For citation: Plantzos Dimitris, "Engraved gems in Asia Minor (Antiquity)",Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia MinorURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=10295>
GLOSSARY
amphora, the from the greek words "αμφί"(on both sides) and "φέρω" (carry): vessel with long ovoid body and a considerably narrower neck made in various sizes from the smaller perfume oil container to the large storage receivers of liquids and solids. It stands on a small foot and it bears two invariable vertical handles on either side. Some of the distinguished types of the amphorae are these whose lower part is tapering to the point (narrow bottomed), the neck type, the Nicosthenian, the Nola, the Panathenaic, the Tyrrhenian, the SOS type.
1. Geometric – Early Archaic period (750-600 BC)
2. Archaic period (600-480 BC)
3. Scarabs from Etruria and Asia Minor
4. Classical period (480-323 BC)
5. Dexamenus of Chios
6. Greeks and Persians
7. Hellenistic period (323-31 BC)
8. Pyrgoteles and his successors
9. Philaeterus of Pergamum
10. Greek engravers in the Hellenistic kingdoms of Asia
11. Apollonius
12. Nicias and Demas
13. From Hellenistic east to Roman West
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