Protogeometric style

Proto-Geometric amphora c. 975–950 BCE. Athens, now British Museum.
Proto-Geometric amphora c. 950–900 BCE

The Protogeometric style (or Proto-Geometric) is a style of Ancient Greek pottery led by Athens produced between roughly 1050 and 900 BCE,[1][2][3] in the first period of the Greek Dark Ages.[4]

  1. ^ Miller 2013, p. 139 :"Around the beginning of the Protogeometric Period [c.1075/50]...".
  2. ^ Lemos 2002, p. 2 :"...the Aegean from the period around 1050/25 to around 900 BC, named after its characteristic 'Protogeometric' pottery style.".
  3. ^ Fantalkin, Alexander, Assaf Kleiman, Hans Mommsen, and Israel Finkelstein, (2020). "Aegean Pottery in Iron IIA Megiddo: Typological, Archaeometric and Chronological Aspects", in Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry Vol. 20, No 3, (2020), p. 143: "...This would imply that the preceding Aegean sequence from Early Protogeometric to the end of Late Protogeometric should cover the last few decades of the 11th century BCE and the entire 10th century BCE..."
  4. ^ Cook, 30

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