Definition of Protogeometric

1. Adjective. Characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Protogeometric

protofeathers
protofeminism
protofeminisms
protofeminist
protofibril
protofibrils
protofilament
protofilaments
protoform
protoforms
protogalactic
protogalaxies
protogalaxy
protogenetic
protogenic
protogeometric (current term)
protogine
protogines
protogrammar
protogrammars
protograph
protographs
protogyny
protohaemin
protohaemins
protohellenic
protoheme
protohemin
protohemins

Literary usage of Protogeometric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hellenistic Pottery and Terracottas by Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy Burr Thompson (1987)
"5t, pi. IV; Ath. Mitt. XXVI, 1901, p. Ml, Xo. 31'!. For protogeometric ... Our growing knowledge of Attic protogeometric (a fabric of which we as yet know ..."

2. Ceramicus Redivivus: The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the by John K. Papadopoulos (2003)
"PG IV represents Late protogeometric. In addition to protogeometric I-IV, she discerned a phase that others would call ..."

3. A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos by Merle K. Langdon (1976)
"Late protogeometric. 195. Base of a krater. H 597. PH 0.09 m. ... Late protogeometric. EARLY GEOMETRIC 197. Neck of an amphora. PI. 18. H465. PH 0.146m. ..."

4. The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora by John K. Papadopoulos, Piet De Jong (2007)
"285, 55) Late protogeometric Cinerary urns in tombs C 9:13 and E 12:1 Height: P 8041: 0.347; P 3169: 0.255 P 8041: Unpublished; mentioned in Desborough 1952 ..."

5. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Topography and Architecture by Nancy Bookidis (1997)
"600 BC The earliest objects excavated on the Middle Terrace are a few sherds of the Mycenaean, protogeometric, and Geometric periods. ..."

6. Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History, and Topography by Eugene Vanderpool (1982)
"The second is based on the thesis, still accepted, that the protogeometric style of pottery was an Athenian invention of the mid-llth century BC and that ..."

7. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2003)
"... Williams has identified a series of sherds, chiefly deriving from cups, that extends from the protogeometric period down into Archaic times. ..."

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