The primary characteristic of Greek vases is their geometric neatness, a style that was perfected between the 10th and 8th centuries B.C., mainly in Attica. All Greek civilizations were geometric, and pottery is no exception. The most representative example is the vase, which maintains an almost constant rigor in its design and the proportions of the sizes of the various parts of the vase. In the case of geometric patterns, Greek black-figure vases are drawn with a ruler and compass, and in the case of painted patterns, as in Greek sculpture, they are drawn with tan lines in proportion, emphasizing realism. The types of vases include amphora, krater, hydria, eunokoe, curix, kantharos, rhytons, lekythos, scyphos, alubaros, alabastron, and pyxis. The amphora was used to preserve food, the krater was a vessel for mixing water with wine, the main Greek beverage, and the hudria was a water bottle with two horizontal handles for convenient transport and another at right angles to the handles. It has two handles horizontally for convenient transport and another at right angles to the handles to make it easier to dip the bottle into the spring or to pour it out. The oinokoe is the most commonly used wine bottle, the curix, cantharos, and rhyton are all wine cups, and the lekythos is a jar of perfumed oil.
