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Turn a neck-amphora and paint it as the painters of Athens did: black gloss on the red clay, lines scratched through it, touches of added red and white. Your vase is kept in this browser, and Share makes a link that opens it for anyone.

A neck-amphora in the black-figure style: black gloss painted on orange clay. Drag to turn it.

How the real ones were made: Black-figure and red-figure.

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆοςοὐλομένην, ἣ μυρίʼ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε

Greek size
— px
Line spacing
1.8

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