The mouth is slightly set off from the wide neck. Shape: The characteristic handles consist of ordinary looped handles, which are attached horizontally to the shoulder of the vessel from the top of these looped handles a broad strap which has flanges and sometimes ribbed sides rises vertically to form an elaborate volute above the rim of the vase. Scholars attempt to discern the hands of particular artists The Omaha Painter (attributed to) (Greek, 6th Century B.C.A wine-mixing vessel with a wide mouth, a deep, broad body and volute-shaped handles. This conservatism and limitation of types are characteristically Greek approaches to the problem of dealing with change in the human experience. Many shapes were established during the Geometric period (900-700 B.C.) and remain essentially the same until the beginning of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). Although thousands of Greek vases survive, there are rather a limited number of shapes and they function primarily to store and serve liquids and solids. Unlike any other category of art, pots were made to be used in daily life to meet ordinary domestic needs, such as storage and serving of food. There were unique commercial considerations which affected pottery-making, such as the need to package a particular product.
Vases were made to be sold, in most cases with no particular buyer in mind. Some vase-painters were certainly master artists, although in antiquity, potters and vase-painters as well as sculptors, architects, and poets were paid and regarded more as craftsmen. From an objective assessment of pottery, one is able to reconstruct not only chronology and economics, but elements of myth and religion, daily life, and of course, aesthetic standards. The study of Greek pottery is just one of many interdependent disciplines which combine to form classical archaeology.
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