Samian vase painting

At the Heraion of Samos, many Geometric vases were discovered, including high-footed kraters, kantharoi, kotyles, skyphoi and round-mouthed oinochoai.

Details such as the diagonally hatched meanders and four-leafed starts betray an Attic influence.

Images of birds are very common, as are horses, on Samos typically with a long main, reaching as far as the middle of the back.

Around 560/550 BC, Samian potters began to produce black-figure vessels of types adopted from Attic vase painting.

Besides Miletus and Rhodes, Samos was one of the main production centres of vases in the Wild Goat style.