Question

What type of cultural influences do you see in the Greek pottery? What are some of the same motif's seen in other prehistoric cultures?

Answer 1

Answer:

Eastern cultural influences from Asia Minor, Egypt and Ancient Near East.

Plant motifs, flower motifs, geometric motifs, African motifs

Explanation:

Greek pottery has borrowed forms and decoration from a Mycenaean tradition.

The first motifs that they used were geometric motifs such as circles or triangles.

They also used plants, flowers and leaf motifs from Islamic culture. Some of the styles were Black-figure pottery and Red-figure pottery combined with orientalizing style with old Egyptian ideas and motifs.