I visited the Julio Fine Arts Gallery during the opening of “Fractured
Histories: Ancient Greek Pottery from Haverford’s Allen Collection.” I thought
that the exhibit as a whole was very exciting, because it consisted of all
pottery, which is something that we aren’t looking at in our art course—so it
was interesting to be able to look at artwork that isn’t two dimensional. The piece
that stuck out to me most in the exhibit were the two small jars displayed
together, titled “Side-Spouted Jar” and “Stirrup Jar.” They were both crafted
by the Mycenaean civilization—the first advanced civilization in mainland
Greece. The two jars have very similar functions, both to pour small amounts of
liquid. When viewing the jars, I thought that it was really cool that they were
really used by a civilization during the mid-fourteenth century BCE. It is
amazing that they are in such good condition, and we are able to determine and
imagine what they were used for.
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