Ancient Greece and Clay Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. tool for scoring clay, or making delicate designs. Can be used to cut clay
  2. 5. tools good for fluting and trimming leather hard clay to create designs or thin a piece
  3. 7. hand-building technique where clay "snakes" or coils are formed, pushed and pinched to combine them into a pot.
  4. 11. Deep bowl with wide mouth, Used for mixing things, mostly wine
  5. 12. rigid & fragile; clay is light in color; all physical moisture has evaporated from clay
  6. 15. fine-grained mineral that contains aluminum silicate - formed when igneous rocks break down
  7. 17. applying pressure to clay to achieve a more dense clay body.
  8. 19. scratching through a layer of slip to reveal another clay body beneath.
  9. 21. Tall, two handled pot, Used for transporting wine, oil, grain, etc. Sometimes used as grave markers if larger
  10. 23. Three handles, one vertical at the back of the pot and two horizontal, Used for fetching water
  11. 25. Style Decoration the use of simple shapes and lines, later with stylized figures of animals and humans (1050-600 BCE).
Down
  1. 1. an arrangement of lines or shapes created to form a pattern or decoration.
  2. 2. the stem of the vase
  3. 4. Pitcher with one handle placed vertically at the back, Used for pouring wine
  4. 6. cutting tool for cutting clay
  5. 8. dried slightly, some shrinkage has taken place, but still slightly flexible, good stage for carving, brushing on slip, slip-trailing, and sgraffito.
  6. 9. for wetting or smoothing clay
  7. 10. Main portion of the vessel
  8. 13. Scratching the clay surface in a cross-hatched method. Used in combination with slip to join 2 pieces of clay together securely
  9. 14. knife for compressing and carving into clay, sometimes used for trimming extra clay
  10. 16. Soft and pliable. (Clay is most versatile at this stage allowing many types of building to occur such as coil, soft slab, pinch pots, wheel throwing, extruding, etc
  11. 18. used in combination with scoring to attach moist clay together.
  12. 19. the slope from the neck to the body
  13. 20. the base of a vessel
  14. 22. opening of the pot
  15. 24. rib, wood rib for smoothing clay