Pottery
From ancient times graphic design has been used for decoration of pottery and ceramics
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This Greek lekythos (used for storing oil, especially olive oil) depicts the scene when Peleus (left) entrusts his son Achilles (centre) to Centaur Chiron (right). White-ground black-figured by the Edinburgh Painter, c. 500 BC. From Eretria.National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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In the period 6500–5500 BC, the farming society of Halaf in northern Mesopotamia and Syria produced pottery that is among the finest in the Near East. The Halaf potters used different sources of clay from their neighbors and created interesting pottery.
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