types and Styles of greek vases & pottery

 Greek pottery may be divided in four broad categories, given here with common types:

• Storage and transport vessels, including the amphora, pithos, pelike, hydria, stamnos, pyxis,

• Mixing vessels, mainly for sumposia male drinking parties, including the krater, and dinos, and kyathos ladles,

• Jugs and cups, several types of kylix also just called cups, kantharos, phiale, skyphos, rhyton, mastos, and jug-types oinochoe and loutrophoros,

• Vases for oils, perfumes and cosmetics, including the large lekythos, and the small aryballos, alabastron, and askos.