When visiting a museum or art gallery, here are the some of the best ways to observe an Ancient Greek vase:
1. Look for mishaps, mistakes, or repairs the painter could have made. There might be some ancient finger prints left smudged at the bottom.
2. Modern reconstructions or changes added to the vase by a modern painter.
3. Similar styles of a group of vases made by the same potter
4. Vases that may have been traded or exported among different Greek city states
5. Words written on pictures
6. Pictorial Connections and Juxtapositions
7. Women
8. Spectators and viewers in the background of paintings
9. Figures making eye contact with you
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